#noooo hes supposed to be the guy I hate on for (mostly) no reason why is he kind of getting to me all the sudden

[arolesbianism]

Uh oh (is having Wormwood thoughts)

[astaroth1357]

The Obey Me Cast on a Camping Trip (Part One: Brothers)

Hey guys, thank you sooo much for getting me to 2,000 followers!! I honestly don’t know what to say... I never dreamed that this little hobby of mine would reach so many eyes, and I can’t be more grateful. At a time in my life where things feel so chaotic and uncertain, being a part of this community and sharing my weird ideas has been what’s kept me going. It’s been such a rewarding experience all around, so thank you. From the bottom of my heart. 😊

I pulled out all the stops for this post. I even brought out one of my favorite songs of all time: Ao to Natsu by Mrs. GREEN APPLE to get the feel juuust right. I hope you all enjoy it!

This post is split in two due to length (I had too much fun again...) For the Undateables, please click HERE!

Intro:

Another day, another team building activity between the demons and the exchange students. It was Diavolo’s idea to go on a camping trip to the human world (because of course it was), and there were very… mixed responses. That sentiment wasn’t helped when he refused Lucifer’s insistent pleas to just purchase cabins for everyone to stay in. Oh no, the Demon Lord wanted to rough it out in the wilderness, and now everyone else was getting dragged along with him…

Wonder how that turned out?

Lucifer

Really, really, really tried to push Diavolo to just rent out cabins in but noooo, he wasn’t having it... So he ended up driving a van crammed with his brothers, the MC, and a butt-ton of camping equipment into the Alaskan wilderness… 

The car ride itself was insufferable… We’re talking, “I SWEAR I WILL TURN THIS CAR AROUND!!” level of antics every 10 miles or so (mostly from Mammon)…

Setting up camp was even more of a nightmare because about half of his brothers were utterly useless. The other half (save Satan) were completely clueless… Had it not been for Barbatos and Satan he probably would have just resigned himself to the mercy of the river’s currents and let it take him away…

He couldn’t even wear his usual clothes because of the situation… For the first time in who knows how many centuries, he was stuck wearing jeans… Diavolo even bought him several plaid shirts... (which he was not happy with btw because his brother wouldn’t stop making fun of the “new” him)

He had his own tent of decent-size, enough to move around in but nothing to write home about. The very fact he didn’t have to share was a luxury in itself, so he took it for what it was worth...

He spent a good portion of the trip focused on two things: keeping Diavolo happy and everybody else alive. He rarely left camp unless forced to; he just wanted to get it all over with as soon as possible…

If he did leave, it was because Diavolo would drag him along to fish or hike. He was... less than pleased to be called out of his tent at the crack of dawn or well past dusk to sit on a little rented fishing boat with Diavolo… but he didn’t exactly pick his friends so...

He rates the trip Too Much Trouble/10. Let’s never do it again.

Mammon

Wasn’t a massive fan of being stuck out in the wild, but Satan told him some made-up bullshit about buried treasure out in the forest and got him HOOKED. He even borrowed stole a whole bunch of mining/digging equipment just for the occasion!

He spent most of the car ride asking, “Are we there yet??” like a child. The MC had to step in to keep Lucifer from leaving him on the side of the road at multiple points during the journey... 

He was one of the utterly useless ones when it came to setting up camp. Someone charged him with putting up the twin’s tent, and he spent thirty minutes reading (then re-reading) the instructions while shouting expletives. Poor Simeon had to shield Luke from the vulgarity…

He has to share a tent with Levi, which neither of them liked. Mammon mainly because of Levi’s “old fish stink” and Levi because he feared catching “Mammon’s stupid.”

He was all jazzed up to go digging from Day One, though. He’d have breakfast, grab his shovel, then wander out into the middle of nowhere to go dig holes in the ground…

He also got completely lost on Day One, and it took the MC summoning him with their pact to return him to the group... By that time, he was filthy and somehow looked like he had been castaway for days (even though he was gone for like, three hours?)

When he stubbornly refused to stop digging, Lucifer resorted to just tying a rope around his ankle and letting him loose. It was up to Mammon to get back to camp before dinner, or else Lucifer would yank him back like he was on a leash.

Satan waited until the last day to finally tell Mammon the treasure was bullshit, and he was PISSED. He even threw Satan into the river, which resulted in the rest of the brothers joining in for a swim while the two tried to “playfully” drown each other.

He’d rate this trip 0/10 because he didn’t get any buried treasure. What a ripoff…

Leviathan

Hated the idea with a burning, seething passion. There’s no internet, cable, electricity, or phone signal out in the middle of nowhere! How the heck is an otaku supposed to survive?!

He clung to his electronics during the car ride until either they ran out of signal or their battery died, then he didn’t know what to do with himself… He resorted to reading several volumes of the manga he stuffed into his bag and clung to the MC for emotional support…

Yet another useless soul trying to put the camp together. He was in charge of his and Mammon’s tent but ended up almost crying in frustration… How the hell do humans do this all on their own?? Wasn’t he supposed to be the third strongest?! Why is he so pathetic?!? 😫

Hates sharing a tent with Mammon because he always wakes up to the second born encroaching on his space somehow… Poor baby is pretty much directly against the tent wall and STILL has to deal with legs and elbows in his side... 😰

Spends the majority of the trip moping in the tent... If he goes out there, he has to deal with the sun, bugs, and people… No thanks. He only leaves for meals and occasionally to go swimming. 

When he found out part of the way through that Barbs brought portable solar panels and a battery pack for Diavolo and Lucifer’s phones, he was livid. He demanded access to the power source, which Lucifer refused because “It would defeat the purpose of this trip.”

He’d have summoned Lotan right then and there, deadass in the middle of the forest, if the MC hadn’t intervened. He then went back to moping, but now at the bottom of the lake and it took a lot of coaxing to get him back out…

On the final day, he was packing up the camp before anyone else even woke up. He wanted OUT and back to civilization ASAP. Bedroom here he comes!

Satan

You wouldn’t think of Satan as an outdoorsy guy. Still, he has shades of a survivalist in him (mostly because he’s read a lot of guides and was looking for an excuse to use them for a loooong time).

He read for the majority of the ride. He was squished between Asmo and Levi, which was reasonably peaceful. But he did end up shouting at Mammon quite a bit towards the end because “NO, we’re not there yet, peabrain!!”

He actually wasn’t a waste of space when setting up the camp, and between him, Barbs, and Lucifer, they were able to get a lot of stuff set up before sundown. He did have to bark a few orders to the others here and there, but overall competency won out in the end.

He shared a tent with Asmo, and the two made it work well enough… Except when Asmo did things like spraying his perfumes and dry shampoos, making it practically impossible to breathe in for a few minutes…

Spent a lot of the first few days reinforcing the camp to a ridiculous degree.

Did he have to collect large branches to build an exterior fence around the campsite? No. But he did.

Did he have to set up a water distillation system using some of the materials Barbs had lying around the “kitchen?” No. But he did.

Did he have to weave a series of fishing nets to catch them lunch from the lake and river? I think you get the point by now.

Only once he built pretty much every contraption or improvement he could think of, did he go back to just reading and relaxing by the fire.

By the time the group was ready to leave, Satan had somehow managed to craft them a veritable, self-sustaining fortress in the middle of the Alaskan wilds…

Overall he would rate the trip as… meh. Next time give him a challenge like a deserted island or an actual desert, and then he’ll really see what he can do.

Asmodeus

Was about as unhappy with the idea as Levi was… It wasn’t that he disliked the outdoors per se, it was just that no one, NO ONE, pulls off looking flawless after several days stuck in a tent!

He chatted the entire car ride from start to finish. He never stopped talking. It made for decent background noise at least…

Was one of the more clueless ones when trying to set up camp and pretty just did what he was ordered. The second he was left to try and figure something out on his own, he went to Lucifer or Satan for help because NOPE. Human equipment is needlessly complicated sometimes…

He had to share a tent with Satan, which in theory shouldn’t have been that bad, but Satan was out basically all day in the sun doing who knows what and would always come back sweaty and gross! At some points, he had to chase his brother out of the tent until he dunked himself in the river or something. No way was Asmo sleeping next to that. 😤

Asmo took the second-longest to get up and get ready in the morning. Sometimes he wouldn’t even leave the tent until well past breakfast just in an attempt to salvage his hair and skin… He only got grouchier about it as the trip went on… 😥

A more… earthy looking Asmo is kind of a bizarre sight. He’s still attractive, no doubt, but it’s less like polished glamour and more like Hollywood humble. He spent the majority of the trip looking like a somewhat dirtied movie-star (which he still insisted was the worst he’s ever looked in ages).

Aside from salvaging his looks, he actually enjoyed taking pictures of their surroundings or of the group (but not himself). He sometimes forgot how genuinely breathtaking the human world could be…

….but his patience for the place wore out quickly once he started noticing his hair getting greasy. He was right next to Levi, packing up the site once it was finally time to leave. At least those two finally found something they could agree on, let’s get the fuck out already! 

Beelzebub

He was really curious about trying camping food and pretty excited that Barbatos was coming, too (because that meant great food in general).

Unfortunately, Lucifer had to stop the van at basically every gas station they passed for Beel could refill on snacks… Belphie ended up getting buried in wrappers pretty often, but he was asleep, so it didn’t matter much.

Beel did a lot of the heavy lifting when setting the camp up, but the finer details were left up to everybody else. He had his hands full getting stuff off the cars as is…

Of course, he shared a tent with Belphie, and there wasn’t much complaint between them. Honestly, there would have been more drama if they were split, so this was the better option.

After the MC told Beel about fishing and how it could net him more food, if he did it right, he knew exactly what he wanted to do during the trip.

… But no one told him how long and slow the process would be. There were points he’d get so hungry he’d consider eating the bait himself…

That was until about Day Three of the trip when they passed by a river full of grizzly bears… He was about to ask the MC why the bears were all standing in the water, but then he saw a fish practically leap directly into one’s mouth…

Beel had discovered his true calling.

Of course, the grizzlies didn’t take too kindly to a demon suddenly sprinting into the water with them. They tried to fight him off, but Beel just tossed most of them downstream without any issue until they realized who the apex predator really was…

After forming a shaky truce with the bears, Beel would stand in the water for hours then come back with whole baskets full of salmon… There were far more fish than Barbatos knew what to do with, so he’d just confiscate a few then let Beel eat the rest...

The MC shuddered to think about what Beel had done to the local salmon population… But he was full and happy for most of the trip, so he had a great time!

Belphegor

Sleep for him isn’t too contingent on location, so the idea of camping wasn’t terrible. It did sound like a lot of hassle for no good reason, though…

He spent the entire car ride asleep, head and cow pillow pressed up against the window and everything. It wasn’t the most comfortable experience, but he’d dealt with worse.

He was utterly useless when putting up the camp by choice, thank you. He had more than enough sense to get things put together; he just didn’t want to. If he wasn’t asked to do something by Beel or the MC, he’d just lay back in the grass and smugly watch everybody else struggle…

Again, he and Beel are in the same tent, and you wouldn’t hear any complaints out of him. He did start to have some second thoughts when Beel began getting a fishy smell, though, so he tried to bunk with the MC in their tent for a while.

Like Levi, Belphie didn’t leave the tent much during the daylight hours, but that was because he was still asleep… There was no good way to wake him with no alarms available, so he’d sleep in past lunch easily.

When he was awake, he didn’t leave camp very much except to walk with the MC or watch Beel fishing grizzly-style.

Eventually, Asmo and Diavolo got sick of him dodging their photos, so they’d started posing him Weekend at Bernie’s style around the camp (always conveniently propped up by something and with sunglasses on)

Something Belphie did like, however, was the nighttime. Since there were no lights around, he could practically see everything the sky had to offer. He could spend hours laying on his back long after everyone else had gone to bed just admiring the stars.

All in all, not a terrible trip. Anything that could give him that view like that was well worth it. 6/10, would sleep again.

Click HERE for Part Two. Check out my Masterlist for more!

[makeste]

BnHA Chapter 300: Days of Our Todorokis

Previously on BnHA: Hawks was all “hey Jeanist, wanna go on a road trip with me to my mom’s house?” Jeanist was all “you know it,” and so they hopped into Jeanist’s jercedes and took off. Hawks took a nap and had a flashback to his Dickensian childhood living in a abject poverty with his jerk mom and jerk dad, thinking heroes were make-believe until one day Endeavor arrested his dad and Baby Hawks was all “OH SHIT.” And then he saved a bunch of people, and the HPSC was all “what do we have here,” and blah blah blah, you know the rest. Back in the present, Hawks was all “well my life is currently in shambles, but on the plus side there’s no one bossing me around anymore so that’s pretty cool,” and then decided he was going to talk to Endeavor. Fandom was all “I can’t believe Hawks would side with his childhood hero over the man who burned his wings off and posted a video calling him a violent murderer who took after his abusive dad,” so that was fun and stuff. I can’t wait to see what piping fresh takes this new chapter will bring.

Today on BnHA: Our old friend Carbonation Carl tries to loot a Starbucks and gets his ass kicked by a senior citizen. Society is all “YEAH, WE’RE REALLY STARTING TO GET SICK OF THIS SHIT.” Old Man Samurai is all “this room won’t stop me because I can’t read it” and abruptly decides to retire, which, fun fact, is literally THE LEAST HELPFUL THING ANYONE HAS EVER DONE. Anyway so then a bunch of other punkasses follow suit, and while I won’t say that I’m actually starting to root for Stain to kill some peeps, just for the record I’m not not saying that either. Back in the hospital, Endeavor cries some tears because his life sucks, and then is confronted by his entire family, LED BY QUEEN REI, FIRST OF HER NAME, BACK IN BUSINESS AND LARGE AND IN CHARGE. Rei is all “fuck feeling sorry for yourself, we have a rogue Murder Son on the loose” and I swear to god I have never felt so alive.

so here we go! and just for the record, even though the last two chapters have been phenomenal, I don’t necessarily have any sky-high expectations for chapter 300, mostly because chapters 100 and 200 consisted of Mei Boobs, and Toadette and her horrific quirk lmao. so go ahead Horikoshi, what are you gonna pull out of your hat for this one

oh, back to this stuff again. sob

I guess there was only so much time we could spend having hospital antics and exploring Hawks’s past before we got back to dealing with the whole “the world has gone to absolute shit” issue huh, lol

omg

what’s with these bizarrely cute Noumus. why do I want to pet them

so the narrative text is going on about how people have been super paranoid about the Noumu ever since the USJ incident a year ago. so yeah, I guess the fact that there are now a bunch of them confirmed to be running around is really freaking people out even on top of everything else

wtf is happening here

what did this poor lil glass ever do to anyone. r.i.p.

OH MY FUCKING GOD

SODA SAM IS BACK ON THE LAM

tsk tsk tsk. my man has graduated from snatching purses to raiding cafes. going after that big money. this man has no business sense whatsoever lmao

OH BUT WATCH IT NOW!!

OH SNAP THE PEOPLE ARE FIGHTING BACK. WHATCHA GONNA DO NOW SAM

THIS MAN IS 172 YEARS OLD AND HE’S NOT HERE TO PLAY GAMES!!

WTF IS HE LIGHTING THIS THING ON FIRE OR SOME SHIT. GETTEM GRANDPA YEAHHHH HE’S CHARGING AT EM YEAHHHHHH

lmao so that was fun. and now we’re cutting to Wash!! omg. look at him

he’s so dedicated. too bad you don’t have a car like Best Jeanist. probably takes a while when you’re just running everywhere

you see?? you were too slow!!

NOOOO, GRANDPA. he defeated Pepsi Pete, but lost his life in the process. this is too tragic

anyway so the good news is that the cafe has been saved! but the bad news is, there really isn’t much of a cafe left. huh. I guess that’s one of the reasons why people are supposed to get a license to use their quirks like this

oh snap and now everyone is coming outside, and they’re none too happy to see poor old Wash over here

seriously Wash, get a bicycle or something. also the way this guy is gesturing so dramatically with his hand in this sort of “YOU SEE!! YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENS!!” manner is sending me

OH MY GOD

HE SPEAKS. DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS. IT MEANS JEANS PUNS ARE YESTERDAY’S NEWS, FOLKS!! MAKE WAY FOR THE LAUNDRY PUNS. CAN’T WAIT TO WATCH THIS ALL... UNFOLD

“the heroes had dwindled away” okay real talk you guys, it is literally only a matter of time before they press-gang the children into picking up their slack. I still don’t know how to feel about that, but it is happening one way or the other regardless. Child Soldiers 2 Electric Boogaloo. wonder if we’ll see a rise in vigilante action as well

OHO WHAT’S THIS? THIS IS A CHAPTER OF GRANDPAS HUH

-- no fucking way

WOW. WOW. WOWWWWWW

wow. so he didn’t do a fucking thing while the rest of the top ten were being turned into red mist in the previous arc, and now that it’s all over and they need his help more than ever, he decides... THAT IT’S TIME TO RETIRE. holy shit. “fuck you” doesn’t even begin to cover it my guy. you stand there and soak up those boos you coward

ohhhhhhh shiiiiit you guys. oh shit

the “I am not here” breaks my fucking heart for real though y’all. oh man. everything he worked for is gone just like that

(ETA: okay so a couple of the takes I’ve seen on this make it seem like All Might is somehow the bad guy here?? “this is what happens when society puts a bunch of glorified cops on a pedestal”, “finally the cracks in hero society are showing”, etc. etc. so, just a friendly reminder that this isn’t happening because of too much trust and a lack of critical thinking; this is happening because the villains killed all the heroes and broke a bunch of murderers out of jail. it’s happening because an organized league of terrorists succeeded in terrorizing, and so society is now understandably awash in fear and panic. like, it’s just wild to me that AFO is RIGHT FUCKING THERE, and yet week after week fandom still has their “IT’S ALL THE HEROES’ FAULT” signs still up on their lawns. BUT WHATEVER, MOVING ON.)

also though, so exactly how much time is passing here now? I wanted to go straight back to the hospital and see what happens with Deku and the Todorokis. please don’t tell me we’re jumping ahead sob. my aaaaangst

OH SHIT

STAIN. LISTEN UP BUDDY. I KNOW WE’VE HAD OUR DIFFERENCES, AND I STILL DESPISE YOU FOR CRIPPLING TENSEI AND TRYING TO KILL MY BEST BOY TENYA. BUT AS IT HAPPENS, THERE ARE ONE OR TWO OTHER HEROES OUT THERE NOW WHO I WOULDN’T MIND YOU PAYING A VISIT I’M JUST SAYING

LOL BUT IT ACTUALLY ISN’T THIS MAN, FFFFFF

sob. yeah I was talking about Old Man Samurai actually but YEAH. HEY THERE ENJI

also is this entire hospital actually run by characters from Super Mario Bros though. first Yoshi and now this guy, come the fuck on that is not a coincidence

lmao they stuck him in another one of these cavernous creepy hospital rooms

wtf is it with Horikoshi and these giant fucking rooms lately. Kacchan’s in chapter 298, then Tomie’s colossal house furnished with like one table and a TV, and now this. and the weirdest thing about it though is that “huge space with nothing to fill it up” is like the exact opposite of what you’ll usually find in Japanese homes lol

so now Enji is just sitting there thinking things like “my head is fuzzy” and “I’m alive” lmao okay. not quite all there yet, huh. I’ll give you a minute

I’m so fucking curious as to who his first visitor is going to be omg. either way it’s going to be interesting af, and either way fandom is probably going to feel some way about it but OH WELL

okay now his thoughts are getting more coherent! and he’s remembering Touya, and feeling regret for freezing up and forcing Shouto to deal with everything instead

!!! OH HERE GOES BRACE YOURSELVES Y’ALL IT’S ABOUT TO GET SPICY

NO TOUYA PLEASE DON’T CRY HONEY NO PLEASE

ohhhhhhh man

okay, I mean I didn’t expect you to, but so instead then you’re just going to do... what? lie there and wallow in regret and self-pity for the rest of your life? son you know that’s not how we deal with our problems here in Shounen

though also, I totally do get it though. honestly, thinking on it, I probably would have been disappointed with any other response. but so this is where the rest of his family (including his adopted son) come into play now though, because like it or not they’re all in this thing together. and so friends, I am once again asking you WHO IS GOING TO BE THE ONE TO VISIT ENJI FIRST

AHHHHHHH

KRANCH!!!! OMG AND THE OTHERS ARE SO TINY NEXT TO HIM THAT I ALMOST DIDN’T SEE THEM AT FIRST. IT’S BECAUSE THEY’RE TWENTY MILES AWAY ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS REGULATION HOCKEY RINK OF A ROOM

holy shit I’m so excited lkjlklhlglkasdsjldfk

SDKFJLSKHLKJL

the way she has him by his collar lmaoooo. “lol nah you’re not going anywhere pal.” damn straight, siblings have to be ride or die in situations like this. banding together for survival. strength in numbers

OH MY STARS I’M JUST WARNING YOU NOW THAT I’M ABOUT TO DISSECT EVERY LAST REMAINING PANEL OF THIS CHAPTER PROBABLY YOU GUYS. WE COULD BE HERE A WHILE

love how Fuyu has absolutely no idea how to segue into THE SINGLE MOST AWKWARD CONVERSATION SHE’S EVER HAD, so she just GOES FOR IT in pure small talk mode like they’re meeting up for brunch somewhere

I KNOW IT’S A SMALL THING, BUT I APPRECIATE THAT THE FIRST THING ENJI ASKS IS WHETHER THEY’RE OKAY

lastly while I can’t wait for more of this delicious Natsu angst, I also just have to say that Enji has as much reason to cry right now as anyone on the planet. you can’t deny that being confronted by your not-dead-but-you-thought-he-was-dead son who’s all “SURPRISE DAD I GREW UP TO BE A MASS MURDERER AND I HATE YOU AND EVERYTHING IS ALL YOUR FAULT AND NOW I’M GONNA MAIM YOUR OTHER KID” with a side order of “EVERYONE HATES YOU AND SOCIETY IS CRUMBLING AND NOTHING WILL EVER BE GOOD EVER AGAIN” is enough to bum pretty much anyone out. there’s a Pagliacci the Clown joke here somewhere. BUT DOCTOR, I AM THE NUMBER ONE HERO

oh man lol he is seriously falling apart

damn. like you guys, I’m sorry, go ahead and cancel me, but I do feel compassion for the man. it’s therapeutic for me to see an abuser actually feel remorse and be truly sorry and want to change and want to make it up to his family. and it’s also compelling as fuck to read a narrative about a family that’s trying to grapple with that, because let me tell you straight up, as someone who’s done a version of that song and dance -- it is exhausting. it is a piping hot mess. it’s a gigantic mishmosh of extremely volatile emotions that all somehow all contradict one another. love, hurt, hope, anger, betrayal, resentment, attachment, longing. it’s something you can both be desperate for and also want nothing at all to do with. and attempting to portray all of that and write about it is a monumental task, and one which Horikoshi has done so, so delicately thus far, and damn but I appreciate it. anyway, so I’m here and I’m ready for my latest helping of Todoroki Fam Feels you guys

GASP

oh man. OHMANOHMANOHMAN. CAN IT REALLY BE. IS THIS THE REDEMPTION ARC OF CHAPTERS 100 AND 200???

LMAO SHE’S ALL “WE ALL FEEL BAD YOU JACKASS STOP CRYING ABOUT IT”

LAY INTO HIM REI!! SORRY ENJI YOUR PITY PARTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED IN FAVOR OF A “SO WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU GONNA DO ABOUT IT” PARTY COURTESY OF QUEEN ELSA OVER HERE. THE PEOPLE TOOK A VOTE AND WE WANT LESS WHINING AND MORE ACTION

oh my god look at this lady folks

NOTE THE HAIR BLOWING IN THE NONEXISTENT WIND. NOW WE KNOW WHERE SHOUTO GOT THIS POWER FROM

(ETA: btw guys, seeing Rei handle this crisis like an absolute champ despite everything she’s been through is everything, though. I’m reminded of Hawks’s line last week about people sometimes unexpectedly finding liberation when they’re backed into a corner. like things may be shit but goddammit her kiddos need her.)

THE CHAPTER IS ALREADY ENDING SOB, IT’S ONLY A 17-PAGER THIS WEEK, BUT GODDAMN WHAT A WAY TO CLOSE

oh my god. oh my god oh my god. AND FUCK YOU HORIKOSHI FOR CUTTING IT OFF THERE sob. it’s like each week the wait for the next chapter becomes more painful. the Todofam is about to get real, and on top of that Hawks is gonna crash the party at some point down the line, and on top of that we’re still waiting for Kacchan to have his own heartfelt discussion about What The Fuck Are We Supposed To Do Next with his best friend who’s currently in a coma. all I want to do with my life is read about these three things, and all I can do is simply wait as they are portioned out in agonizing, addicting little installments every week

anyway! tune in next time as we answer the question of whether or not fandom will finally run its train of logic all the way through to its natural conclusion and somehow manage to cancel Noted Abuse Apologist Todoroki Fucking Rei. don’t act like it can’t happen. you all know nothing is sacred lol. anyways but I’m ready for anything lol, bring it

[washymylifeaway]

Haikyuu fanfic recs for ones I liked hehe

EDIT: I made a pt 2

Anyway, as the title suggests, I am recommending some fanfics for popular(ish) ships that I personally really enjoyed! I’m only doing one or two fics per ship (which in hindsight is KILLING me so I’m just putting the first fics I find and am like I really liked that one LOL) because I wanted to do a shorter fic rec list (tho watch this become super long LOL). I also may or may not be procrastinating finishing a couple other long posts, so there’s that hehe. For the (kinda but not really) public consensus for best fics per ship (by kudo count) check out some of my other posts. Also I’m putting some ships I don’t actually read much of (OOPS LOL) so if you think that there’s a fic that fits my type (if I even have a consistent type) better, pls tell me LOL. Otherwise, pls continue heh :)

As always, pls check WARNINGS, TAGS, and SUMMARIES for fics before reading to make sure you’re taking care of yourselves (since mental health is key!) and stay healthy!

IwaOI:

The Loyalty of a Traitor by DeathBelle (E) 76.9k // ok so does me liking this fic make me basic cause I feel basic LOL. I really love mafia fics, and the way the story line developed was SO good, like IN LOVE with this story. This is a fic where you should read WARNINGS, TAGS, and SUMMARY before diving in, but if the length scares you, don’t be. It’s so easy to fall in and get lost in the writing!

the courtship ritual of the hercules beetle by kittebasu (chanyeol) (T) 66.3k // again, basic? Probably LOL but it’s good so I have no shame ;) Again, pls don’t let the word count scare you (cause it scared me LOL), you get really into it after like 2 paragraphs, so just make sure you have enough time to finish hehe.

KuroKen:

Thicker Than Blood by kylar (M) 91.4k // are you surprised that there is another mafia one? You really shouldn’t be LOL. Anyway, I’ll just be here pushing my mafia fanfic agenda while you read this monster of a fic hehe :) Definitely read WARNINGS, TAGS, and SUMMARY because there is some very sensitive topics involved! I also adore the oibokuroo friendship headcannon, so more reasons to read, right?

Liked, Commented and Subscribed by Royal Society of Pandas (Abarcelos) (T) 45.7k // this fic is SO funny omg. I read it and I had to stop so many times just to laugh because I could not stop sometimes LOL. However, there IS angst towards the end, it gets resolved, but it’s still there... But honestly, it just adds such depth and flavor to the fic, so pls read it!

BokuAka:

bang! now we're even by Authoress (M) 11.9k // so I’ll be honest, I don’t read a lot of BokuAka (...oops?) and so I wouldn’t consider myself as the best person to be recommending fics for this ship (in general too LOL).... ANyway, I love myself some good spy AUs (was gonna put that IwaOi spy AU but the LIMIT), and Akaashi in a dress? Like the tags might state, what more do you need? The characters are done beautifully, and the story development is SO good, so I give you all my humble BokuAka rec.

Crisis Converted by valiantarmor (M) 60k // man do I really love fighting in my fics LOL. This was super good and the plot itself kept me really engaged (what a twist omg). It does talk a bit about mental health issues, but it’s done so well, and they really did this AU justice!

DaiSuga:

How to Manage by SuggestiveScribe (E) 39.3k // ok so yea yea we established, I’m basic, BUT can you blame me? This might’ve been one of the first DaiSuga’s I’ve read and I have no regrets. Literally, this fic series is one of my favorites, so OF COURSE I had to add it somewhere :D Honestly, I don’t even think you need to read the first one to understand what’s going on, but I would just cause it has some funny DaiSuga moments too ;) This is explicit for PWP, so proceed with caution~~

Add New Contact by booksong (G) 8.5k // this one! It’s so cute and poor Daichi LOL. He really out here doing the most,,, Anyway, we love tech Suga, and a nice dash of snarky tsukki (LOL is he salt, yes yes he is). It’s very fluff and pine, so if you want to read Daichi having gay panic like 24/7, go right ahead LOL. 

SakuAtsu:

Burden of Blame by DeathBelle (E) 91.2k // ummmm, haha what, another mafia AU? Me, predictable? Noooo, never..... Anyway, this one was so freakin’ good like, love it so much! It’s one of my favorite mafia AU fics, and I love the story line progression. Poor Atsumu being dragged into this mess, but it’s okay because THEY are IN LOVE. Honestly, this fic is Atsumu best boy like he is the best boy. BEST BOY.

Notte Stellata by awkwardedgeworth (T) 20.9k // I ignored all of the other fics I LOVE in this ship (like the pain I’m in rn), but I love this fic with my whole heart. Like I have reread this fic multiple multiple times because I love it so much (tho I might’ve skipped the angst a couple of times cause I didn’t want the pain okay?). I keep coming back, and the second fic in this series is SO funny and cute and I love it here. Please read it, it’s so FREAKING good, angst and ALL.

KyouHaba:

Team Mom by All_My_Characters_Are_Dead (T) 2.7k // so as I was going through this tag (because that’s what I do LOL), I remembered this fic and I love it. Like yes Yahaba is the fear factor and yes Kyoutani is the DAD. I really like the team dynamics in this one, and the first years make me laugh pls.

Camellias by kiyala (T) 1.9k // IK you’re all like, you’re missing such great fics, like no I’m not I just made myself hate myself by limiting fics to two per,,, I love this fic and when I starting looking for this ship, it was the first one I thought of hehe. I really love magic and their interactions are so cute and the PLANTS ARE DOING THE MOST. Pls read both in the series, cause domestic KyouHaba is best KyouHaba ngl LOL. I love the plants, and if you read the second one, someone tell the trees to stop bullying Yahaba.

MatsuHana:

This gets annoying fast, Makki by Ink_stained_quills (G) 2.3k // IM IN LOVE WITH THIS FIC PLS I COULD NOT STOP CRYING TEARS OF LAUGHTER. This AU needs more fics PLEASE. It was SO freakin’ funny and the other teams KILLED ME. Like how they all approached the problem differently and how some of them (KUROO) asked for help LOL. Please this is so freaking funny go read it.

boiled frogs by reginagalaxia (E) 91.5k // I told myself I was gonna put my most angsty fics on another post (which I will for my other favorite MatsuHana angst fic which I love), but this fic. Omg I saw it and I was like I have to. Literally I have to. I hate angst, but read it. It, the, plot, omg, I jjfnsfknalkjdnf ljksan. Like I’m not sure you understand. This fic. asjfjfsadnldjb. I never thought I could hate a character SO MUCH,,,, like SO MUCH. READ TAGS, WARNINGS, AND SUMMARIES because some serious stuff really goes down. Bless Iwa-chan.

SunaOsa:

Accidentally in Love by pancake_surprise (T) 19.6k // JOSE CUERVO strikes. I love this fic and all the chaos in it. The way they were supposed to be the responsible couple (of friends LOL),,, sike. This one is only a slight angst and it’s mostly love and fun :) Also technically this is no longer the first fic in the series, but I’m still putting this one cause the other one is SakuAtsu orientated hehe :)

Spring Secrets by DeathBelle (T) 3.8k // Seasons might be one of my favorite (as all things also seem to be) series of all times. I don’t like rerecommending fics I’ve already said to read, which is why I’m not yelling at you to go read a certain other fic (which is my life and blood). Anyway, this fic series is all fluff barely angst (maybe that’s why I like it) but it’s so freakin good pls read it all ahhhhhh.

Komori/Suna (what is their ship name):

I wish to live in a world by hatsuna (T) 24.8k // ok ngl this fic was so sad and relatable? Like I was like wtf why are you making me cry rn even though like I shouldn’t be? My heart? Pain. (Hotel? Trivago.) Technically, this is END GAME but the main pairing is kinda SakuAtsu???? Something of the sort, but also their relationship (Komori and Sakusa) is written so well and idk guys I think you need to read this fic rn.

Ah the two fic limit hurt me, but fear not I am making ship specific rec posts (LOL I’m so dramatic), so if you wanted more of a ship,,,, its a coming hehe. And yes I did say I’m making an angsty fic rec post, but we’ll see if it gets finished before I side-track with posts like these LOL.

[sodasback]

The Party - For You Series

JJ Maybank x Allie Routledge 

"Are we going or what?" JJ asked waiting in his truck.

"Allie! Come on! We're leaving in 2 minutes with or without you!" John B. called to the house as he waited outside the passenger door. Allie came running out the door, meeting both the admonishing gazes of her older brother and his best friend.

"Nope. There's no way you're going out like that." John B. stated. Allie was prepared for this.

"Thanks for your input. ...that I didn't ask for. But I can wear whatever the fuck I want soooo..." She started to move past John B. to take her designated middle seat in the truck but he stopped her.

"Nope, I'm not giving you a ride to this party if that's what you're gonna wear, Allie." JJ agreed with John B.

"You're supposed to dress like this to go to parties! Why the fuck do either of you care?"

JJ averted her gaze and glared out the front windshield for a second before he  came up with a better reason he was upset by her outfit other than trying to prevent being outrageously jealous all night, "Because we don't want guys looking at you like you're a piece of meat. And I don't want to get in a fight because you can't handle the attention you're gonna get from that skirt."

"Umm it's 2019 assholes. In case you misogynists didn't get the memo: girls can wear whatever they want and aren't asking for it."

"Yeah, no that's fine for any other girl. Not you though. ...and also, not all guys have gotten that memo." JJ continued.

"Whatever." John B. sighed, letting Allie in the truck, "Just get in. It'll take her forever to change anyway."

JJ glanced down at her cleavage and bare thighs before shaking his head and putting the truck in drive. Allie smiled and let out a little satisfied chuckle at her victory. 

When they got to the party, Allie pretty much immediately detached herself from JJ and John B. She knew no one would flirt with her if she had 2 body guards all night. She also didn’t want to witness girls throwing themselves at JJ or her brother for that matter. So the moment they walked into the giant house, she found her friends and got to drinking. 

JJ usually loved parties. Flirting, storytelling, drinking, smoking, dancing; it was the element he thrived in. But tonight, as his feelings for Allie were becoming increasingly hard to ignore, he found himself constantly distracted by the younger Routledge. Even with a drop dead gorgeous touron standing right in front of him, he couldn’t help but look over to check on Allie at the beer pong table. Or when he was right in the middle of story about him running away from the cops, he lost his train of thought watching Allie dance with some Kook way too intimately for his liking. 

Then, she was playing some drinking game and was given a bottle of vodka to finish.

“Alright, Al, that’s enough. Come on, you’re gonna drink some water.” JJ tried. 

“What aryou talking about? I’m fiiiiine” Allie slurred pushing JJ away slightly but losing her balance in the process, causing JJ to reach out and grab her around the waist.

“No, you’re wasted. Come on-“

“Hey man, just relax. Let the girl have a good time.” Some guy interrupted him and put his hand on JJ’s shoulder.

“Let her have a good time? She can barely stand up or keep her eyes open. I’m taking her home.”

“What are you her boyfriend?”

“Noooo, JJ won’t let him-herrrr-himmself be my boyfrien. He thinks I’m his lil sistur. But he’s way too hot to be my brother, right? Look at his hair” Allie slurred, and reaching up to run a hand through JJ’s hair before he slightly rolled his eyes at her antics and pulled her hand out of his blonde locks. A small part of Jj was amused at Allie’s admission, but mostly he hated seeing her like this. 1. He was annoyed he cared soooo much about a girl he shouldn’t want and couldn’t have. 2. He knew John B was gonna yell at her later if he found out. 3. He hated that if he wasn’t there, she would have been so vulnerable to whatever these guys around her wanted. 4. She was gonna be hurting in the morning.

“Well, if you’re not her boyfriend, then I think you should let the girl do what she wants. You wanna stay and party with me huh baby?” The guy asked, slinging an arm around Allie who grimaced at first but then lazily leaned into the guy before JJ pulled her behind him.

“I’m gonna need you to not touch her again. She’s drunk off her ass. And if you want her to stay and party then you’re obviously a creep. So get the fuck out of my face before I-“

“Before you what?” The guy asked with too much cockiness.

JJ just shook his head and with one punch broke the guys nose.

“JJ!” Allie yelled both worried about his hand now and mad at him.

“Come on, we’re going home.” JJ declared angrily as he turned for the door and tugged Allie behind him.

In the car, Allie had sobered up significantly and she was very aware of the tension rolling off of her brother’s best friend in the driver’s seat. 

“JJ?” Allie asked hesitantly as they pulled up to the chateau.

“What were you thinking Allie getting that drunk?! And I told you you were gonna have creeps all over you in that outfit! Did you just count on the fact that I’d be there to save you?!”

Allie’s brow furrowed in confusion before she glared at him.

“What? So you think if I had worn a sweater and stayed sober that guy wouldn’t have done that?! Don’t blame what I drank or wore for that guy being a dick because you know it’s not my fault!”

JJ knew she was right. He was just mad. He was mad that she made him this jealous and protective without even trying and that there was nothing he could do about it.

He let out bIg sigh of frustration “Fuck. I know. You’re right. ...I’m sorry.” He stated softly, he said before looking up at her. “Come on, let’s get you inside.”

JJ got a glass of water, then rummaged in the medicine cabinet for ibuprofen and took the trashcan out of the bathroom before knocking on Allie’s door that was cracked open.

“You can come in.” She stated lazily her back turned to the door as she continued undressing.

“I brought you- Jesus Allie! Why did you tell me to come in if you were naked?!” JJ yelled while shielding his eyes with his arm.

Allie shrugged, “Like you haven’t seen a naked girl before. It’s not a big deal JJ.” Allie giggled while she slipped on a tshirt.

“A naked girl and a naked you are VERY different things.”

“Stop being dramatic. You can look now. I’m wearing a shirt, promise” she said as she sat on her bed.

“Here drink this.” JJ commanded handing her the glass of water. Allie rolled her eyes and didn’t reach for it, so JJ sat down on the bed next to her. “I’m not letting you sleep until you drink it, loser.” 

He followed her eyes as they landed on his bruised knuckles wrapped around the glass of water he was still holding out for her. Allie took the water out of his hand and set it on the night stand. While JJ was about to protest her not drinking it, she cradled his hand gently in both of hers and pulled his hand to her lips where she kissed it gingerly.

“Thanks for protecting me J” she said sincerely. 

He softened at this gesture and let his shoulders fall, “Always” he promised.

 Allie slowly, but boldly gripped the back of his neck and pulled him toward her. Her eyes fixed on his lips. And JJ leaned in, but then smelled the alcohol still on her breath and was brought back to the moment. He reached for her wrist and unhooked her hand from his neck.

“Wait, Allie stop.” He said shutting his eyes and rising from the bed.

She opened her mouth to speak but JJ interrupted. 

“Just... not like this. ...you should go to sleep.”

“What? Wait, JJ, please stay.” She pleaded softly. But JJ was already in the doorway.

“I’ll be on the couch. Get some sleep Al” JJ said softly before leaving her yearning for him to come hold her.

Taglist: @abbyj1822 @october-cameron @moonrisebeach @hernameisnoell @moniamaybank @railmerafe @phantompogues @jeyramarie @gabiatthedisco

[crystal-moon-101]

Ben Gen 10 - Live Reaction Review

Right, so since I’ve finally got my hands on the new crossover episodes, and since my favourite show of all time is Generator Rex, I thought I’d watch it and write down things along the way. Mostly just reactions to things happening as they go, and then probably a simple review at the in another post of what I liked, didn’t like, and maybe what other ways this episode could have gone.

Spoilers! Kind of, for those who haven’t seen it yet! But onto the watching!

Should probably mention I haven’t seen a whole lot of the Reboot Ben 10. Not awful from what I’ve seen, some interesting and well-done aspect even, but certainly not my cup of tea. But I’m here for my boi Rex anyway so…

This is actually quite a cute theme song intro, not gonna lie

Ah, yes, a very American opening in a very American location.

Lol, of course they use Heatblast as the first alien in the episode, got the same voice actor as Rex, nice touch.

Evil...trees? Are these actually villains in the show?

Also, that little girl is precious.

Ben, are you trying to start a forest fire in the middle of the park?!

Ha, Gwen gets it!

Ah, yes, more American stuff.

“Don’t wreck the precious monuments” should have seen what you did to Mount Rushmore in your past, Ben.

Sup, Hex.

Music is evil, got it.

So Ben’s aliens are pretty famous already, at least being treated more like celebrities than monster sightings.

“Burn the flute!” A.K.A nearly burn Hex in the process.

And that’s why Ben never passed music class.

And why exactly do you want the world, Hex?

“Hopefully the last one of the summer” Don’t jinx it Max!

Time goes by so fast, doesn’t it Ben? Especially with aliens, villains and timetravel.

Max is secretly an EVO with that kind of growl.

Yes, because as we all know, villains will stop trying to take over the world once summer is over. They must hibernate for the winter.

Also, Max, did you steal those marshmallows?

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…….Ben, you good there?....Did Hex do something to your brain?

Who thought this would be great to animate!?

We all have those existential crises and talk to smores.

Jesus, Rex, got ninja skills I see.

Some homeless kid and his monkey stole my food? Time to kick some ass!

My favourite alien, Canonballoon.

I’ve missed my boy and his chimp.

Awwwww they’re sharing! Also just….feel so bad for them already. Homeless and struggling for food, my poor boys.

So EVOs do exist here? Wonder how that will be explained.

Ben out here really trying to beat up some other kid, lol. What a great hero.

Bobo, you are great.

I feel like...Ben’s going through some issues.

Ah yaaaaaaaaaaa, bring on the EVO powers! BFS!

Look ma, no hands!

Rex 1, Ben 0

Ben really wants to commit murder or assault here, wow.

Overboard is the word I’d use, yes.

The life of a background character.

Nanites confirmed! And now they’re in the watch, that ain’t good.

Huh...not what I thought was gonna happen.

The little girl is still precious.

This would be fun to explain to Azmuth.

This ain’t good.

On the run from Providence I see.

Awww, poor Rex. Really doesn’t want to hurt anyone.

I can’t tell if these people are angry because of the DNA affect them, or they’re really just being angry in general.

See ya, Gwen and Max.

Interesting to see that the Providence aircraft looks straight out of the show.

Evening, Six.

Still a badass like normal.

He said Omega, he said the word!

Also, nice blame game there Ben. It’s not like you provoked Rex by, ya know, trying to crush him like a grape.

Um...Six...did you just….try to kill a kid? He didn’t know Ben had powers, that pillar could have easily crushed a normal human.

“This is how you try to convince me you’re not a threat?” Say the dude who just tried to murder a kid!!”

Oh no, he Naruto runs! 

Oh, hello Hex.

Also, what is Providence in this world? What are EVOs and Nanites in this world? None of this has been explained yet.

Ok, so that’s what Providence is...You’d think we would have seen them before based on all the aliens showing up who want to destroy the world.

EVO Generator....I wonder if that means that there aren’t very many EVOs, like maybe there is only a set group from the same lab, and Rex is considered the most dangerous because he can make EVOs.

Ben, do you even know what an EVO is?

Jeez, I know Six is like, the sixth deadliest man on the planet, but he just tackles alien Ben like it’s nothing. This guy should take on Vilgax.

Did he say nib libs?

My boi’s back!

I’m not liking this Six...very much not the character I’ve come to love. Who are you and what have you done with the real Six!

Lol, gotta make sure the kids at home know these aren’t real guns!

Using a net on one kid, and about to beat the crap out of the other, nice.

I do have to ask why Hex was picked to me the main villain, beyond whatever the hell Providence is doing. Why the magic dude and not a tech based villain? Someone who could be both interested in the watch and nanites.

What a covenant spell you have there, Hex.

Again, why do you want to take over the world?

“No, those are my aliens!” I think that’s the least of your concern there, Ben.

Bobo 1, Hex 0

Why is Bobo one of the best-written character’s here? Not that I hate Bobo, but just…

Lol, Rex did you just lay there, the entire time? What was that net made out of?

Ah, right. Let’s attack the children rather the magical manic who clearly stated he wanted to rule the world.

Those nets are fireproof apparently.

Ooof, ah….quite the sore spot there, Ben.

Just let me hug Rex, please…

Are there EVOs are are there not!?

I know this is supposed to connect with older fans, but most of this info would fly over the head of anyone who hasn’t watched Generator Rex. They act like everyone knows what EVOs and nanites are.

Still with the blame game are we, Ben?

Judging by that look, Rex’s parents are also dead in this world. Guess he’s not allowed nice things in this universe either.

That flashback was….so latching in the dramatic department. 

Now ya wanna help, Ben.

He’s so scared of himself, noooo!

Ya, but the different between you and him, Ben, is that he lost his parents, his home, got mutated, his memories became hazy, got locked up and called a monster, and now lives on the streets stealing smores. I think Rex has more of a reason to feel scared at being new with the hero business.

Bobo gets it.

Gotta love they added details on Gwen and Max’s alien forms to make them stick out from the rest. Don’t want to confuse anyone lol.

Thinking of a clever comeback on the spot is hard, not gonna lie.

Yes, Ben, drown him.

Again, with the American music, lol. It ruins the fight scene here.

What is this fight scene?

Original Providence agents would have died on screen rather than ditching the fight.

God, everyone’s made Rex feel like everything is his fault, poor guy.

Rock 1, Ben 0

This message and heartfelt moment falls flat, the build-up wasn’t there and it just...kind of happens. It lacks a lot of flavour and impact, and it doesn’t help with how most of these characters are written.

Old people jokes.

Now we shift the blame to Kevin.

Is Fourarms Gwen bigger? Because if so, nice touch, since we know female Tetramands are stronger/bigger than the men.

Ok, so attempted murder is fine when Six and Ben try to do it, but not Rex, got it.

Get in line Hex, you’re not the first who wants to ‘recruit’ Rex. You’ve got Providence, Van Kleiss, Quarry, Black Knight, that one band, and so on so fourth.

Why is this heartfelt moment suddenly happening now? This feels like it could have been placed back when Rex refused to fix the watch.

Ben…”I’ve already tried that!” Bruh, you tried beating him up, telling Six and Providence you saw him, basically acted like he wasn’t a good hero because he refuses to get over his trauma, and reached out your hand once because it benefited you....I get what they’re trying to do, but it just makes Ben look like a jerk. I get he’s ten, but still…

Just...slap him Bobo, please…

Why are we so nervous about Rex’s sword? Ben you have aliens that can burn, cut, smash and so on, and you barely care what you do. Remember how you nearly started that forest fire at the start?...

Yo, what!? What kind of logic is that, Providence? “Whelp, guess earth is screwed, might as well burn it”

Ya, remember that time when EVOs infected the whole world, and Providence decided to just burn everything down with lasers? 

Extendo blade.

Huh, so Six’s blades can break down Rex’s builds.

Salamander...don’t you mean...Skalamander?

One ship? What is Providence packing!?

Yasss, Punk Busters!

Rex is crying, how dare you!

Now we got Smack Hands, you’re in for it, Hex!

Ooooooooooooooonnnnn iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitttttttttttttttttttttt!

Ah yes, the sixth most beautiful man on the planet.

Again...what is with the nuking?

Magical cloth fixing, just what I need.

Pure chaos with my boy.

Cracking his neck made me cringe.

Also why the sudden change in heart, Six? This feels out of character for the character who is out of character.

Look, Rex, you’re either gonna fix the watch, or you’re gonna start the self destruct countdown. Everything is going to hell, so might as well take that 50/50.

And it worked!

Ah ya, about that missile.

See’s missile inbound “I can handle it!”

Iron Giant vibes around here.

Screw ruling the world, I’m gonna murder this one child!

My cat’s the same.

REX, DID YOU JUST KICK A MISSILE!?

So that’s his full name?

I think you need to work on those vacation days with your boss, Six.

You are not Six, I will never accept you.

So the episode starts with Rex being alone, homeless and being chased by Providence, and ends with him being alone, homeless and being chased by Providence. What was the improvement here? Self Confident?

Ben even just lets him go, doesn’t even offer him to stay with his family.

Rex deserves better.

Another heartfelt moment that just...falls flat…

“Always be family and be there for you, Ben” Until you go to college without telling him before hand

So!...That was the crossover. Not...amazing sadly. I didn’t have high hopes to begin with, and mostly was just happy enough to have Gen Rex be acknowledged. But this Crossover missed a lot of points, and fumbles quite a bit. It reminds me a lot of the Secret Saturdays Crossover and what was wrong there. But I’m tired and will do a break down/proper review another day, if people are keen for that. Thanks for reading this if you did, it was a rollercoster!

[kanri-tea]

Demon Slayer! AU (Part 2 - Meeting Old Friends)

Ramuda, Ichiro, and Samatoki finally reunite. Jakurai sleeps away for now.

~~~

For Ichiro, waking up in the past was disorienting. He looked maybe eleven or twelve for some reason, and more importantly, he was a l o n e.

Where were his siblings?

Where were the others?

He’s an orphan again, but this time, there’s no Jiro or Saburo. There’s no Kuko or Samatoki. As he lives his life again, Ichiro finds that he’s alone. (Of course it’s adults that let him down, Ichiro thinks bitterly.)

In the end, it came down to pure luck, Ichiro thinks, that he ended meeting Kuwajima Jigoro.

In the end, it was thanks to the elderly man that Ichiro hadn’t lost his mind, hadn’t given up hope.

So Ichiro trains. He trains and he trains and he trains. It’s difficult and Kuwagima is a harsh taskmaster, but Ichiro tries and tries for the man he’d come to call “jii-chan.”

It’s frustrating too, for all that he tries and he tries, he can’t learn Thunder Breathing. Not completely. The first form, Thunderclap and Flash, is the only one he ever manages.

Ichiro hates himself for being so weak, but he’s not a failure no matter what Kaigaku says, so he works even harder. Like jii-chan says, if he couldn’t manage the other forms, then he sure as hell was going to master the one he did know.

Time comes and goes; the peach trees continue to whither and blossom as each year passes. By the time Ichiro heads off to the final selection – carrying the well-wishes of Kuwajima with him – the longing and pain has mostly faded to the background. Sure, he still missed Jiro and Saburo and spent countless nights worrying over what happened to them, but in the end, there was nothing he could do. What he could do instead was pass this exam and become a demon slayer to protect humanity.

There’s only four people who end up passing the exam. As Ichiro looks around, he sees a girl with a butterfly hairpin and an empty smile, he sees a boy whose faced is scarred and anger in his eyes.

He sees Ramuda.

But. There’s no way. How many years had it been since he’d woken up in this strange world all alone? Four years? Five? Even as the almost identical children speak to them, even as a sparrow lands on him instead of a crow, even as the angry boy tries to strangle the white-haired child, Ichiro is frozen.

When the Ramuda look-alike steps up and protects the child, Ichiro wonders briefly if his Ramuda would’ve ever done that. Would the childish man ever put himself in the middle of violent situation he couldn’t talk himself out of?

Ichiro doesn’t know anymore. Hell, he’s not even sure if he even remembers Ramuda’s face accurately anymore.

In the end, the four newly named Demon Slayers go their separate ways without ever speaking to each other. In the end, Ichiro doesn’t manage to scrounge up the courage to ask the pick-haired boy who he was, and Ichiro couldn’t help but hate himself even more.

Ghosts, Ramuda thinks, are still scary as fuck, but he supposed Sabito and Makomo could be the exceptions. But if he ever saw another ghost in his life again, he was going to go ballistic. Ugh, ghosts, he thinks as a shiver goes down his spine.

But… for Sabito and Makomo, for the other children who were killed… You can be at ease now. Even though you’re all spirits now, you can return now. Return back to your beloved Urokodaki-sensei’s side, back to your home at the base of the Mist Mountain.

Ramuda wondered where his spirit would go after his death. Maybe his spirit would go back to the modern age, where Dice and Gentaro was along with Jakurai.

Selecting an alloy for his nichirin blade should’ve been an easy, well-deserved task, especially after fighting so many ugly demons in the forest, but noooo, this one asshole just had to try and bully a little kid! Geez, what a barbarian – even worse than Samatoki.

Carefully making his way back to the Mist Mountain, Ramuda spent most of it distracted by his thoughts, thoughts of spirits and of the living and the dead, and of the demons and human. Speaking of demons…

“Welcome back,” Jakurai evenly breaths, arms wrapping around Ramuda like a warm blanket. How many years had it been since they’d been transported to this cruel, yet kind world? Six years? Seven? He didn’t know, but maybe it was for the better. Had they been in the modern era, in a time of hypnosis microphones and humans that could be even worse than demons, Ramuda would’ve never accepted this, not after the TDD split up.

Another pair of hands wraps around them, bigger and broader than either Jakurai or Ramuda’s current body. It doesn’t take a genius to know that it’s Urokodaki-sensei, but the flowing tears, Ramuda mind slowly processes, is new.

“You finally came back alive,” the tengu-masked man sobs, and Ramuda understands. He understands. Pushing back memories of the many Ramuda clones that never came back, he lets himself slip. Emotions weren’t punished here, they weren’t disregarded. For the first time in a long, long time, Ramuda lets himself cry, sinking into Urokodaki-sensei’s embrace, soaking in Jakurai’s warmth.

For the first time in a long, long time, Ramuda felt free.

Fifteen days later, a hyottoko-masked man – Haganezuka – shows up with Ramuda’s nichirin blade. And man, what a weirdo, Ramuda thinks. Even as he’s being shaken by the weirdo – Jakurai peeking out from under the futon, disapproval written all over his tiny face – Ramuda contemplates his black blade. Damn, he thinks, he was really hoping it’d turn pink or yellow or something cute. Black kinda felt… ominous.

“Caww!!! Amemura Ramuda,” the Kasugai crow flies in, loudly cawing, “Hurry and go to the northeast town, caww!!”

“What the fuck,” Ramuda asks no one in particular from beneath Haganezuka, “Is that crow talking?”

The crow pears down at him, vicious eyes boring into Ramuda’s confused ones, conveying how unimpressed it was, which, how the fuck was a talking crow even conveying facial expressions?? Ramuda had so, somany questions.

“Hurry up and go hunt demons,” the crow yells at him, “This is your first assignment! Remember this well, in the northeast town, young girls are constantly disappearing every night! Every night! There are girls! There are girls constantly disappearing!!”

When Samatoki wakes up, it's in the middle of a forest. He doesn’t know how old he is – early teens maybe even younger. But more importantly…

What.

The.

Hell??!!

The last thing he could remember was fighting an illegal microphone user alongside fucking Ichiro, Ramuda, and sensei. So what the fuck was he doing in a forest? With a boar’s head mask on his head to, Samatoki thinks repulsively, and it looked pretty fucking real.

Maybe this was a joke, he thinks to himself, getting more and more hysterical as each day passed without any signs of people. Maybe Jyuto dumped his ass in the middle of a forest to see if he’d learn anything from Rio’s “survival cooking” lessons. Fuck if it wasn’t the stupidest idea ever, but Samatoki was getting desperate.

But, as years pass, he gives up hope. What’s the point? All around him was nothing but wilderness. Maybe it was desperation, though, that made Samatoki do his very best to survive, pulling out all his deepest knowledge of whatever survival shit Rio had passed on to him.

It’s not until he meets a so-called ‘demon slayer’ and beats them up and steals receives the guy’s admittedly kinda cool sword as a reward, that Samatoki finally feels like he’s going in the right direction. If it meant getting out of this damn forest and maybe doing something with this life, even if it was something stupidly noble like Jakurai, then Samatoki didn’t find that he minded.

So he fights and he learns. Samatoki learns about demons, learns their weaknesses and strengths, learns about the Wisteria houses. He accepts that there is no one else. That he’s alone.

It’s not until Tsuzumi Mansion, though, that everything Samatoki had come to learn and accept about this world turns on its head.

“There’s a demon around here,” Ichiro hears Samatoki growl. The man is as violent as ever, and while Ichiro could never stand with someone like him ever again, this world was different. This was a world of demons and monsters, where fighting wasn’t only for survival, but to protect humanity.

Maybe it’s because Ichiro hasn’t seen Samatoki since they’d been thrown into this world, but Ichiro follows Samatoki as the man rampages through the mansion and out the front door. It’s not until he sees the white-haired man heading straight towards the wooden box that Ramuda had been carrying that Ichiro acts.

(“So, what’s with the box?”

“Hmm~ This box… I’ll tell you later! But this box isn’t just any box! It’s my most very precious possession, so don’t try anything funny with it, m’kay?”)

“Stop –! I won’t let you lay your hands on this box. This is Ramuda’s most precious possession!”

Samatoki comes to halt in front of Ichiro crouching over the box, protecting it with his body. It’s times like these that Ichiro is reminded how terrifying Samatoki could be, and the gleam of violence in the man’s – boy’s? – eye promises even more violence.

“The hell, Ichiro? There’s a demon in there,” Samatoki yells at him, “And why the fuck is Ramuda carrying around a demon?!”

“I… I knew that from the very beginning!”

When Ichiro had woken up in this world, one of the first things he’d noticed was how good his hearing was. It wasn’t just being able to hear things from a long distance or even just really quiet sounds. He could hear heartbeats, could practically hear the thoughts of others. It was a hearing of an unnatural degree.

The sound of a demon and the sound of a human were fundamentally different to each other, but… it was Ramuda. It was Ramuda who laughed and played cheerfully during their TDD days; it was Ramuda who popped by every once in a while to check on Ichiro and his brothers after the split.

It was Ramuda whose sounds was so fierce, yet kind.

(The demon’s sound was kind too. It was so, so kind and soft that it made Ichiro want to cry. Maybe this was what pushed Ichiro to the edge, the thing that made Ichiro trust Ramuda on this matter. Sure, Ramuda was someone precious to him, but even Ichiro knew Ramuda was hiding secrets – dangerous secrets.)

“I’m going to ask Ramuda face-to-face,” Ichiro informs Samatoki, eyes unwavering. Ichiro had conceded to Samatoki many times in the past, but today, he wasn’t going to do that. He wasn’t going to give in.

“Tch,” Samatoki lowers his sword, “If the demon attacks us, it’ll be all yours and the stupid gremlin’s fault. Actually, where the fuck is he?”

“Samatoki, you stupid barbarian,” Ichiro hears Ramuda squawk and moments later, he comes in to view with Shoichi, Teruko, and another boy who Ichiro assumed was the older brother.

It’s not until Ramuda headbutts Samatoki in the middle of their squabbling and Samatoki falls unconscious, most likely concussed that the surrealism of the situation really catches up to Ichiro.

What the hell is my life now?

“So, if the three of us are all in this world since we all got caught up in the illegal microphone, where’s sensei?”

After burying the bodies, because Jakurai would’ve been hella disappointed in them if they hadn’t, Ramuda was finally back on the road with Jakurai on his back. But man, Jakurai was heavy. The box was supposed to be made out of some extremely light wood according to Haganezuka, but that was a fat lie. Maybe Jakurai was just fat, Ramuda snickers quietly in his mind.

Focusing back to the present, Ramuda’s mind stuttered to a halt at the question. Fuck. How the hell was he supposed to answer that?

So everyone we knew got killed by the demon king and then turned Jakurai in to a demon and know here we are, with me being a demon slayer and looking for a way to turn Jakurai back and Jakurai now sleeps in a box most of the time and is also toddler-sized! Buy hey! We’re alive at least!

Yeah, that wasn’t going to go over too well.

"Uhhh... Yeeeah... About that... The old man is kinda, uh." Ramuda sweats his way through the conversation, "I'll tell you guys when we get have time to rest, 'kay?"

Thankfully, both Ichiro and Samatoki let the issue rest, but Ramuda could tell that neither were too satisfied with Ramuda putting off the conversation. It doesn’t take too much longer though, before they reach a mansion with a wisteria printed on the door.

“Caww – Rest! Rest!” Ramuda’s crow calls, “The injured will rest until fully healed!”

“Eh,” Ramuda questions, “We get to rest now, even though I had to fight while injured,” he asks, mildly ticked off.

“Coming…”

“A monster?!” He hears Ichiro whisper to himself. Ichiro seriously watched too much anime, Ramuda thinks to himself as he rolled his eyes.

“You are the demon slayers, right?” The old lady who answered the door asks. She bows, “Please, come in.”

Ramuda steps into the wisteria house. This world was so, sostrange, but, even as Samatoki snarls suspiciously at everything and Ichiro freaks out over the littlest of things, it’s a bit better with friends.

By the way Jakurai knocks the back of the box, Ramuda was pretty sure the old man agreed too.

"So, about the old man. We kinda ended up together," Ramuda starts explaining, "Like he ran a clinic and everything and I lived there for a while."

"Eh, did he stay behind?" Ichiro questioned, confused to where this conversation was going. Samatoki is nodding next to him, confused.

"About two years back, we... the clinic got attacked by a demon. Muzan," Ramuda breaths, "And the old man..."

Ichiro and Samatoki's eyes widen. Was Jakurai dead?

"... Jakurai got turned into a demon," Ramuda finally admits. He turns towards the box and raps his knuckles on it.

"Yo, old man. Are you coming out or not? You've been asleep in there for ages!"

The door of the box swings open, a tiny hand revealing itself before its owner crawls out, purple hair splayed everywhere.

"What," Samatoki breathlessly stares, "the fuck."

A toddler-sized Jinguji Jakurai stares back, muzzled mouth quirking down and an unimpressed look plastered on his child-like face.

[staliasjeronica]

Riverdale S5 Ep9 Thoughts

It’s been awhile since I’ve watched Riverdale, I’m getting bored with them going back to Varchie out of literal nowhere and I’m assuming BH will soon follow because they don’t know how to write anything else even though that’s all the show needs to be good. Look how great the show was when they were finally starting to give us Barchie…. anyways thoughts under the cut so this post doesn’t clog up the tag. Also: MANIFESTING JERONICA AND BARCHIE BYE

- Honestly a lot of people are weirded out/annoyed by the alien plot but I love aliens so I’m lowkey okay with it.

- Alice this is Riverdale you really think some bad coincidence couldn’t have happened right after Polly left the phone booth?

- Veronica stop using money for no reason PLEASE. And god more VA scenes I’m so tired of it… though somehow it fits better than them being together as teens. But we’re not forgetting how he cheated on her with Betty, still loves Betty, and is mostly just going back to Veronica because it’s “comfortable”

- TABITHA AND VERONICA SCENE!! They look so good standing near one another ugh

- … if I heard the football coach say that over the intercom I’d literally think he’s a whiny piece of shit and never go to the games in spite. What the fuck was that???

- Jughead acting like he probably wouldn’t have written a story like that kid when he was in school lol okay...

- Reggie pointing at each bulldog and calling them a loser on his way out…. what the actual fuck asdfgjkl;

- Give Veronica literally anything than plots surrounding Archie and Hiram we’re so fucking TIRED

- Veronica needs Archie to talk to Reggie about this boring football bs but will make a wager with her dad that will go against everything Archie would like… please nothing about them as a couple has changed!!! IT’S SO BAD AND BORING!!!! WE DON’T WANT THEM!!!

- We really could have had teachers!Barchie and Jeronica but noooo they’d rather cater to toxic bh and va who don’t deserve to have their boring ships that ruin their characters. Why did Riverdale get stuck with the people who can’t write to save their lives?

- Cheryl and Betty finally having an actually good conversation wow-

- VA once again in bed sigh. The only thing getting me through is that Archie seems much happier with Betty muah

- Veronica stop being cute I’m trying to hate you and Archie getting back together out of nowhere

- Betty please for once in your life stop lying… I know you’re trying to protect her but if Polly really is dead it’s gonna hurt even worse now that you gave her hope

- LERMAN LOGAN AAFJDSHKHFJDFASHJKN THAT’S HIS FUCKING NAME? BRUH-

- “The story could have alluded to stuff happening at home.” “Then you should have come to us!” yes because parents who were abusing their child totally wouldn’t say anything to throw off the teacher who’s just trying to make sure their student is okay…….. why would he go to the parents first?

- #Kangs Cheryl shh we already don’t like them together please stop… anyways Swangs and Keggie when???

- Fangs really dated Kevin for 7 years, weirded out with his bf going into the woods to hook up with strangers and only now is talking about it… and they thought they’d be able to marry and have a baby together??? damn anyways SWANGS AND KEGGIE WHEN????

- But also Fangs is so right that’s why Kevin’s angry

- Adult friends BH is literally so much better than teenage co dependent toxic wannabe detectives but also if this makes them get together, also out of nowhere, I will rip out my hair

- what kind of nick name is T-Dub………… but anyways this scene was so cute

- See adult BH and VA could have been so good if they kept romance out of it since they already milked the shit out of it for four seasons (at least three too long), because them as adults, as FRIENDS feels so good to watch.

- HIRAM BENCHES REGGIE BC HE DOESN’T WANT TO LITERALLY BREAK A CHILD’S LEGS?!?!??!? This is how we get Reggie back to the “good side” and not Beggie sighhhhhhh imagine if we had good writers

- Betty’s like “…… the mothmen……. god I literally grew up to be a real detective what is this bullshit?"

- Also instead of mothmen why not just make it all about aliens by themselves

- This proves that BH is STILL not compatible after five seasons muah I guess I can deal with boring VA as long as the worst of the worst, BH, is gonna stay dead. At least VA is hot

- That edited picture of Betty and Polly I— afsdfhfasf

- Polly deserved so much better… anyways go read my Sweet Pea x Polly drabble!!! based after the time jump :)

- Kevin please if you’re gonna painfully flirt please learn a few actually good pick up lines

- Ummmm okay first of all why did that guy not say anything about Kevin calling him hot if he was straight and not into him hitting on him? Second of all, why does Kevin always get these awful plots, and lastly, what the fuck anyways can’t wait for Fangs to find out and sick the serpents on that Shane guy bc while him and Kevin aren’t together anymore, he definitely still cares about him

- Betty once again resorting to assault……. okay…… what a gross misuse of power

- Kevin feeling ashamed of him being gay because his mom once talked about him wearing husky clothes…? God everyone on this show deserves much better plots what the fuck

- Can’t wait for Betty to be suspended for this bullshit

- I don’t think the Logan’s would like Jughead of all people helping find their son but okay

- Betty is so unstable please how did she become a detective… ahhh right the writers eat from her ass lmao

- Love that Reggie gets no shit for just suddenly switching sides

- also sigh pairing up bh and va for the millionth time. It’s interesting that everyone enjoys the show much better when literally anyone else interact

- more singing…………Cheryl you’re not in high school anymore BUT it is lowkey a bop somehow though

- I know the answer is no but V never told Archie of her dumbass wager huh

- 0 to 52………………. so how is Hiram not gonna win this. We find out he cheated in some way and is disqualified or something?

- VERONICA, REGGIE, AND TABITHA HUGGING AHHH NEW OT3 FUCKKK

- Why is Hiram so mad his team has 52 points I—

- That kiss was so boring please give us Barchie and Jeronica and stop having V go back too Archie

- THEY LEFT RIVERDALE THAT QUICKLY? damn okay

- Betty feeling bad just because her mom found out she lied… like okay I know we’re supposed to want Betty on the case but she really shouldn’t be. She’s such an awful detective. She had potential in the beginning but :/

- anyways thank fucking god it’s over that felt like a million years long of boring bullshit where is Barchie and Beggie and Jeronica and Keggie and Karchie and Swangs ugh make Riverdale interesting again PLEASE I’ve never stopped watching like this, ever…

[mandysxmuses]

✘ for all your muses (Keeper and non)

“Honestly, I have the greatest fear of losing my power to something as simple as guilt. … Why am I talking about my weaknesses in front of grey creatures? They love weaknesses.”

“I dunno, I’m freaked out by lots of stuff. I get frightened real easy now, and I hate it, ‘cause – ‘cause most people aren’t really scared of lightning and thunder and stuff, but it can shake me up for a bit now. I haven’t really told anybody but Pony about it, ‘cause being so scared of that kinda thing ain’t tough… or tuff. It’s just noise…”

“I mean, I’m disturbed by those Socs. And not just the way they dress, haha – uh – that was a joke, but, uh … what they’ve been doing lately isn’t. Beating the tar out of Johnny? Nearly cuttin’ Pony’s throat like a stuck pig? And you better believe if someone like Pony or Johnny died, they’d get blamed for jumping those guys when they weren’t hurting anybody or just walking home. … ‘Nough of that stuff, though.”

“I’m quite disturbed by existential horror; I suppose everyone is, though. The fact it’s called horror should indicate it’s disturbing.”

“Okay, this is gonna sound way stupid, but… I have a huge fear of dogs? I don’t know why. We’ve never even owned a dog, not even a small one, and… I don’t remember being bitten by one at any point… but seeing them, especially the big ones – dogs really freak me out.”

“Hmmm… I suppose… that hag scares me. Well – she did – until she died. Some of her ideas were absolutely ridiculous, and she had quite the following. … But others were quite … use-ful.”

“Uhh… I guess… I know it’s super obvious. But losing people I love really scares me? I’ve already experienced loss multiple times, and… that’s the thing about it. It’s an unavoidable fear, because … you know it’s going to happen again. You know, if you love someone, that they’re going to die or leave at some point. And if they don’t, you’re going to. It just – it’s … so …”

“I’m scared of… of- of not being… enough for my Mama. … I already know I’m never gonna be enough for anyone else. … But - But Mama loves me. She just wants to make sure I’m okay, even if – even if I am okay and she doesn’t know it, and … sometimes when I’m sure I’m doing something right… sorry. Sorry, sorry… it’s just – I’m starting to think I’ll never be enough for her either…”

“Something that disturbs me? I do the disturbing. … Ummm – I guess, you could say, for reasons that have NOTHING to do with ANYTHING, I don’t like rocks.”

“Ohh gosh. Uh. I hate to say it – because I also think the ability is SUPER cool! But – Seth’s mouth does this reeeeeeeeally disturbing thing where it like, opens up like a snake? … Which is cool on a snake. But when you see it on a demon that’s as big as Seth, it starts looking a lot freakier.”

Damien clears his throat. “I’m disturbed that I haven’t lit something on fire today. And that people don’t allow me to set things on fire sometimes, what the fuck?! The school’s too strict about that.”

“… I think it should go without saying that if I were to find a girl in my condition that went through what I did, I would NOT have put her through anything that was supposed to ‘help’ at the asylum. What happened there was disturbing. I might be mad – but I’m not wrong to find the conditions and supposed ‘treatments’ there abominable, am I?!”

“I’m disturbed by just how many children out there need homes. It hurts, knowing I can’t help them all, but I suppose one mansion can’t be filled with millions of children …”

“Have you ever seen a fetus?” Alex said bluntly. “The drawings of those things look creepy.”

“The fact that the Sanctus guy my daddy worked for had such a big following. Drinkin’ the kool-aid for Sparda, I guess you could say – but not all of those people that got involved were willing, either. Good ol’ bug-brains – uh, sorry, Nero told me he looked like a bug and I believe it – he, uh, experimented on random people and how demonic stuff affected ‘em. Some of the details are in the Order docs. He doesn’t explicitly say he did it, but he drops some information and th-then you start to think: ‘how did he know that’?”

Ruby sighs softly. “I guess I’m frightened by … mmmh… static. I don’t like the sound of static. Listening to it for more than ten seconds really starts to unnerve me …”

Frank examines his knife uncomfortably. “… It’s rude to talk about it like this, but … let’s just say there’s … something out there … that really doesn’t like it when I don’t deal with smartasses fast enough.”

“…” Claudette looks anxiously about. “Isn’t this whole place disturbing? You … don’t expect me to pick just one thing about it, do you?”

Dwight sighs. “Back before all this, I was never accepted by anyone. And now that I have to make a stand or die – I’m just worried I’m going to fail them even further. Now their lives are at stake if I’m not enough.”

“That malfested curse can come for anyone. That’s really frightening – but I am strong.”

“… I don’t want to tell you people. I’ve heard dreadful things about you people. … Don’t do anything with Moti unless it’s going to make him happy.”

“What disturbs me is that you woke me up from a perfectly good nap for this.”

Giles narrows his eyes. “What’s reeeeally freaky is that foxes can look like naked human women, apparently. …!! I KNOW HOW FUCKIN’ INSANE THAT SOUNDED, HOLD UP–”

AND NOW FOR THE KEEPERS OOF SORRY

“… Me. … Mostly me, I, uh, I kinda suck. … And I know how to fix it, too, but I don’t, because I have it good. … Which is another reason I kinda suck.”

“Sometimes, people are gonna hate you JUST because you exist. No other reason. You just exist, and do nothing to – to i-inconvenience anyone, but then they hate you just because you’re there. You’re born. You breathe. And you’re nobody.”

“… Sometimes, people don’t care that you exist. … People that used to be your friends. … And you get to watch them have fun and interact, while you get the pleasure of announcing what they’re doing while you sit in isolation. The best part’s when they tell you to leave your post constantly, and happily remind you – and this is verbatim – that your ‘job’ you keep doing to keep yourself going doesn’t even matter. … Peasants, all of them, peasants, I don’t care. I don’t care. I DON’T CARE.”

“Nothing really gets to me now? At least, I don’t feel much at all when others get hurt. I don’t care that people don’t like me. I guess, uh, being as weak as them would scare me? But who gives a shit, really? I’m not. And if I was, I still wouldn’t feel bad.”

“I… exist… to die. … Isn’t that disturbing? … Renee’s the only one who seems to notice if I’m around … and … I’m just gonna keep dying for people, over and over and over.”

“Literally EVERYTHING about the Void frightens me. Even though I have the same powers Jemand has, I’ve tried things to fix it, and I – I can’t. I just can’t. I can’t change the boys, I’ve tried, I can’t, and – and the game is so fucked up, and so in their favor. What can the Keepers do?”

Verheiler’s ears flatten. “Todlich… and… knives. I refuse to have any metal cutlery in my cabin now.”

“I literally turn into a giant, bloodthirsty, uncontrollable and invincible beast and night and EAT PEOPLE.”

“… I get the feeling most of us are just going to describe our purposes for this; so I’ll put it bluntly: the Void disturbs me.”

“Sometimes I see somethin’ under th’ water. And it… it ain’t lookin’ pretty.”

“I’m scared of losing Silber.”

“Noooo way, Schnell! I’m scared of losing YOU!”

“YOOOO!”

[mythaughtsdiary]

rant on fandoms

ok so i've been seeing this alot and i gotta say fandoms have been geting a fuck ton worse and always get worse in the fucking long run. here are some of my points in each fandom i was or am in 

1. homestuck fandom 

now when i was a teen my old friend/cyber bully got me into homestuck and for a while i thought it was cool but then loads of people started to yell at me for getting a freaking name wrong just because i say it differently so this is one thing in fandoms that fucking happens a lot like oh how dare you have names said wrong bleh bleh bleh. 

next is the shipping and in this fandom there is one character that does ships that people have bullied me over the damn name of this character. this entire comic is shipping. and loads of people screech at you for a bad ship when shipping is just stupid as fuck. 

another thing is the tumblering where every fucking artist has to draw the characters in this stupid tumblr appropriate style like oh how dare this character be this when it should be this. like no set characters are set in a way because that's how the creator made it. now i'm all for creativity and shit like that. but when you just go full on tumblr all your doing that for is not for your own doing but to get noticed by everyone else like look how great i am. 

2. fnaf fandom 

so i use to be in the fnaf fandom along time ago and for a while it was cool great art great people but then came the people who started to bully an artist because they just got tired of drawing fnaf and wanted to do something fucking different. and was there in bullied out of the fucking community. 

i also got bullied out of this community not because of my art but because of my old guilt tripping rps and shit to which i say that's fine but does that warrant cyber bullying out of a fandom no it does not. which is why i left that fandom fucking bullies everywhere because of drawing shit and other stuff but i still kept one friend from that fandom who was with me through it all.

3. hazbin hotel fandom 

now i'm still in this fandom mainly because the friends i have made in it has kept me sane yet the fandom in itself is becoming more shity by the fucking day here is why

the fucking old vivziepop drama popping up to everyone in the fandom mainly by people who choose to think everything she has drawing since 2009 is a real thing to which most of the nicer fans have debunked and i myself have debunked. now you might be saying but crow mom that's not a real source well in the case of the comic she use to draw gustave even fucking stated he was a teacher's assistant there for just fresh out of fucking high school. same with fucking addison these kids are all in their last year of high school. as for addison and the whole snake thing people at the age of 16 or so on are allowed to fucking explore shit they like. his fucking mother is a damn naga so there in ya of course he would like snakes his mother is half snake.  another thing i've seen is people screeching at her for fucking stoping the comic and redesigning it like come on artists can grow and learn other things and realize shit they do. which is why i'm proud of her to be re doing this shit to show hay i'm learning and doing better. 

as for liking other artists and drawing them art for people who have bad views she was back then a teen/adult herself so ya she made stupid choices does that mean you have to rune everything she has no it does not i mean fuck me she made hazbin hotel as different as it use to be because she wanted more diverse things and more tumblr correct shit. and yet you people still find ways to peg her down and the fans. ( key note hazbin hotel is in hell everyone is fucking shit because it's hell hell is a bad place) i only had one run in with a vivziepop hater and i even made a fucking meme incase that person ever shows up again. now for helluva boss so far i have yet to see any hate but my friend running a loona blog did and it was for the shittest reason all because some stupid korean popstar has the same fucking name they tell them “ get out furry trash” like oh people and or characters can't have the same name so now you have to bully others because they are associated with that same name. fuck no get off your korean pop star loving ass and stop.  oh ya i also ran in with another i think viv hater for screeching at me that i suppose beastiality, rape and other shit all because i am a freaking cat demon oc which is mainly anthro which is mostly animal on fucking animal most of the times in my ocs which is not fucking beastiality. this person just wanted to have a cheep ass shot at me to leave the fandom. ( fun fact the most of the hate from this fandom were a bunch of feminists oh noooo guys tumblr feminists are after me) 

4. mlp fandom here we go i use to be in this fandom but i got tired of it once i began to watch drama videos on it and i gotta say there was a fuck ton of pedos in this fucking comunity and i just did not want to deal with it. as well as artist neigh sayers who were like how dare you use bases and how dare you use a 3d mlp maker because its not your own art. and the biggest fuck was when i use to post mlp a fuck ton on my da and this one person was like oh that pony would look great in a diaper yum yum slurp” and that's what broke me i just cant deal with that shit. people in the mlp fandom are fucked up. another thing is i am friends with the biggest mlp nsfw fucker in the universe who had a fucking drama video  made on him. and i gotta say this he is an annoyance at best all he wants is nsfw rps. 

[somuchkdrama]

My Girlfriend is a Gumiho

Episodes 3 & 4

Dae Woong the Man-Child

@rocknghorss: Daewoong is such a frustrating man-child!!! I get that Miho is.. screwing up his game with noona but why can't he treat her more nicely?

@dramajib: I think he's being plenty nice as it is actually. Like he could just ditch her entirely, but he's put up with her (until now anyway). Mostly out of fear, but still. It's not just noona she's screwing up for him, basically since he met her he's got no money, can't go home for (misguided) fear of her eating his family, he's discovered that most of his friends were fake friends..

rocknghorss: I know :( I'm just biased...

dramajib: Ahahahaha aren't we all. 

That whole ship thing at the end of episode 3 took me by surprise though, I was like... Dae Woong is a selfish manchild, sure, but he hasn't been MEAN up to this point. And that was really mean

rocknghorss: it was! He'd had a pretty disappointing day, but still, that was downright mean.  I guess from his point of view, everything was Miho's fault. So why not? Especially since as far as he knows, the water can't actually hurt her.

dramajib: It's awful. I hope he gets very contrite and fixes it somehow. Preferably NOT by diving in the water and swimming after the boat and getting pneumonia

rocknghorss: Lol.

The Greatest Love Story: Aunt and Elevator Guy

rocknghorss: Speaking of fixing things, I like how Miho is inadvertently fixing Daewoong's relationship with his Grandpa

dramajib: And helping his aunt and the elevator guy

rocknghorss: Oh yes lol. Although! I was a bit confused about why elevator guy thought that aunt was married?

dramajib: In the previous episode, when she runs away cos she thinks his daughter is his gf, he sees her standing in front of the mannequin at the men's underwear section of the department store, and when the sales woman asks her if she's buying undies for her husband she says yes, cos embarrassed

rocknghorss: Oh. I'm glad you remembered, b/c I was completely lost.  That said, I was quite amused just how EXTRA they both are. The soft lit sunset behind elevator man as he was (I guess) wallowing in despair was ridiculous and I loved it.

dramajib: It's so cheesy I can't stand it but I also simultaneously love it

Dramajib Goes Off On Noona

dramajib: Kristin have you finished episode 3? I haven't watched 4 yet but I have an itch to talk about noona and all her noona issues

rocknghorss: I’m down for discussing noona (and continuing to call everyone by their title rather than their name for the rest of the drama lol) whenever

dramajib: Hahaha sorry I'm just useless with names!

rocknghorss: No worries Ekta :) It’s all good! I can’t be bothered to learn names of characters nowadays... I’m too lazy

rocknghorss: I was wishing the other day that Seunggi’s character had a shorter name lol

@triangularlily: Doesn't Miho just call him Woong a lot of the time?

rocknghorss: Ooh you’re right.  Kristin you’re awesome. My thumbs thank you lol

triangularlily: Hahaha you’re welcome.

<note: at this point some of us hadn’t yet finished watching episode 4…>

dramajib: Since we're all done with three: KRISTIN, I TAKE BACK everything I said about noona. What a cunt!

rocknghorss: LOL

triangularlily: LMAO EKTA.

triangularlily: Like she is horrible but I kind of like her actually? When she is tired of waiting for Woong so she just drives away??

rocknghorss: Man-child Woong and Noona kinda deserve each other right now…

triangularlily: I guess I like that she isn’t like bending over backwards to get the guy like a lot of second leads do she is like super confident and scheming about it instead. But maybe I will take back my words too cause I really don’t remember her character at all

dramajib: I was SO PISSED with noona's dress scheme in episode 3, hence my indignation. Like, fine, I was all on her side at first because it IS ridiculous the way Dae Woong is behaving out of the blue and not giving legit reasons. I did love how she drove away.

But when she pulled the dress thing, when she KNEW she wasn't wearing that dress, and she let him lose his chance at auditioning, she lost me as a fan cos that's just cruel. You know this is the big break he's been working towards, and if you really cared about him you wouldn't sabotage that just to throw shade on your competition

rocknghorss: I both hated and enjoyed her pettiness.  Just like Kristin said, I kinda liked that unlike many “villainous” second female leads, she was unrepentantly nasty to her “competition” and wasn’t shy about it. I hated it of course, because it was just gross and had the consequence of more meanness thrown Miho’s way

<...some time later…>

dramajib: Okay I just finished episode 4, and I'm wavering again about Noona. Like, everything she says to Dae Woong about wanting him to be clear about his feelings is totally valid and fair. But the way she behaves about getting this lead role in the film is horrendous - and I don't quite understand why she calls him when she finds out that Mi Ho is the girl elevator guy had his eyes on

Hip Hop Guy, Guest Starring Ma Wang

dramajib: I am epicly confused by incongruent hip hop ost second male lead's deal. Is he just trying to restore balance? Kill Mi Ho? Steal her bead? Is he falling in love with her? Like what is going on there

rocknghorss: I’m watching 4 now. When you guys watched it did it seem like the monk knew that hip-hop guy was some sort of Demon Hunter/supernatural being?

triangularlily: Hmmm idk like he seemed very matter of fact about it like oh u can put the fox back nice!

rocknghorss: Right? It was kind of weird but I guess if the monk does actually believe in a nine tailed fox, why wouldn’t he believe that some random veterinarian could bring the fox back to the painting? Lol

dramajib: I love that his name is now hip hop guy. We’re so good at naming characters

rocknghorss: Lol. We are

dramajib: But didn’t Mi Ho call him a fake monk?

rocknghorss: Ooh, you’re right! But maybe that was supposed to be an insult, since he’s been keeping her captive in the painting?

dramajib: Yeah, that’s what I thought at first too. Also cos he keeps telling her story potentially incorrectly?

triangularlily: Oh true yeah

dramajib: Maybe hip hop guy gave them the painting in the first place? Cos he also gave them to the temple dog to guard it?

rocknghorss: I don’t know guys. Hip-hop guy’s backstory is the most confusing so far

dramajib: Right?? Cos I’m like.. Who even is this guy? He’s been passing as human since before Mi Ho got trapped in the painting, which means the girl he killed was even before that, so is he like in exile now? Is he good? Bad? On a different moral scale altogether?

triangularlily: I’m really trying to remember but can’t

dramajib: lol not the most memorable villain I guess. If he even counts as a villain.

triangularlily: I think he’s technically the second male lead lol

rocknghorss: Hm. Maybe he’s being punished like in Hwayugi.  The way Iron Fan was?

dramajib: Oh noooo the Iron Fan thing was TRAGIC I don’t want to sit through that again!! Ma Wang being mopey in his little throne room ugh

rocknghorss: Ugh yeah. Everything about Hwayugi was tragic.

dramajib: Well not everything. Ma Wang’s fashion gave me life

triangularlily: Lmao

rocknghorss: Lolol Fashion was good, it’s true. But how is he the second lead if he’s trying to kill/capture Miho is what I want to know

triangularlily: Lmao

dramajib: Well he loved Mi Ho’s lookalike, so I can see him starting to grow fond of Mi Ho. And like, try to keep spiritual beings together instead of letting her fraternize with humans

triangularlily: Yeah I think its something that develops and maybe we should talk more after u finish 4 Marie

triangularlily: Cause there is some development in that area in ep 4

rocknghorss: Ah. Oky doky!

<...some more time later…>

rocknghorss: I finally finished episode 4 you guys! And started episode five!

rocknghorss: And I find it super cute that the way the audience is supposed to know Miho is falling in ~love~ is that she wants to feed/eat with Woong, not just freeload off him

dramajib: I love her interaction with the neighbourhood mean girl ahjumma. And the whole hunting down coupons thing

rocknghorss: Yes! Mean girl ahjumma was hilarious.  Her voice was perfect lol

dramajib: Did finishing episode 4 give you any further insight into hip-hop guy?

rocknghorss: Ehhh. Hip hop guy is pitiful. I’d like to understand why his role appears to be “monster hunter” because that was still not cleared up unless I missed something.  But I can definitely see why he’s billed as the second male lead. He’s got it bad for her, in his own way

dramajib: I assume we get more of his back story? Because as it stands, it seems like the way he's hunting her down is probably the big plot point, and I don't really get it yet either

rocknghorss: I think we do? I can’t really remember.  He seems to lack a lot of urgency in getting her back to the temple tho.  Like if it was that big of a deal why is he slowing around and letting her decide on her to go back?

triangularlily: Yeah I cant remember either I think we do

triangularlily: *get more backstory I mean

dramajib: At first it seemed like he'd been waiting to catch her forever. Then it seemed like he was guarding society and making sure she's safely locked up. Now it's like he's hunting her for his own pleasure. So confused

rocknghorss: That’s exactly why I said hip hop Guy was pitiful btw. I think he likes her or is confusing her with her previous incarnation(??) and is struggling not to confuse his feelings for the other girl with Miho. So he’s got this artificial choice of duty or love, but he doesn’t even know Miho really.

triangularlily: Yeah he also has been by himself for so long. Like the whole can’t make human connection thing

rocknghorss: Yeah!

dramajib: The connection thing - was living with humans his choice, or forced on him? And if it was his choice, he's also chosen to live isolated, soooo… Not that I don't feel bad for him, I'm just being contrary for the sake of it

triangularlily: Yeah I just mean I can see how he became a bit twisted is all

dramajib: That whole scene where he's sitting with her in his house and telling her what her options are was sad. But I also don't trust him so I'm like... Are you just telling her things so that she'll choose to do what you want her to?

Ending On A Less Angsty Note

dramajib: But I also love that grandpa loves Mi Ho without even meeting her yet

rocknghorss: Yupo.  He’s just super enamored that someone was able to make his grandson grow up.  Grandpa doesn’t want much lol Also! I like that he doesn’t rib Aunt too much about her crush. Even though she’s wayyy too into it (again apparently lol)

dramajib: Lol aunt and elevator guy are great though. I can't wait for his daughter to find out that Dae Woong is going to be her cousin

triangularlily: Looool I didn't think about that

rocknghorss: Hah

[queencatherynerhys]

Taken - Part 3 TRR AU

A/N: Seriously, you guys, it’s amazing that you are keeping up with this series because oh my goodness I am a terrible person! I don’t know where these diabolical ideas come from! I love you guys! Thank you so much for the support. This is an amazing fandom! Please, please, don’t hate me!

Summary: Liam is furious. He is in the capitol, in the comfort of his palace while the love of his life is being held captive and tortured because of him. How will he and his friends handle this devastation?

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Previous Parts:

Part 1│ Part 2

Disclaimer: I do not own the rights to any of the materials used in this story!

 Liam knows there will be no sleeping tonight. He sits on the edge of the bed in solitude, replaying the video in his head. The image of Catheryne’s contorted face is burned into his memory. He will never be able to erase it from his head no matter how hard he tries, no matter how much time passes. His entire being is racked with guilt. It’s my fault. I am the reason they are doing this to her. This damned crown has cost me more than I can endure. Maybe I should comply with their demands. I can abdicate and leave this fucking world of kissing nobles’ asses, diplomacy and assassins. Catheryne will be safe, but I know she wants me to fight back. That is what she would want me to do. She would say giving up is weakness, leaving my people to these coward’s clutches is unforgivable. She would never forgive me for taking the easy road, but how am I supposed to just sit here when I know she is out there suffering?! Some king I am!

Please, Catheryne, please hang on, my love. Be strong. I am coming for you. I promise I will not rest till I find you!

Meanwhile, Catheryne is thrown into a dark, damp holding cell. The only light being streamed from the barred window of her prison. Her eyes adjust to her surroundings. She notices an uncomfortable bed set up by the wall. She touches the wall and feels an uneven cold, rough structure, as if she’s being held in a stone cave. Where the hell am I? Her body aches from the torture she endured, but her mind races for a plan to escape somehow. I gotta get out of here! She runs to the bars of her jail and shakes it to find some sort of weakness in the structure, only to be met with empty hope.

“Don’t bother trying,” a weak voice says from across the dungeon. “There’s no way of escaping from this hell,” she can clearly hear the hopelessness in his tone. “Who…who are you?” she squeaks at the stranger. “Dr. Mallon, my name,” he replies as he limps into her view. He has a makeshift splint on his left leg. He is undoubtedly underweight, almost malnourished for his size. The feature that intimidates her the most is his eyes. They look so sunken, so empty, so broken. “I’m Catheryne,” she greets her cellmate. “I know who you are. They’ve been talking about you for weeks. Apparently, you’re the lady that captured the king’s heart. Looks like they’ve found his weakness,” he informs her. “If you don’t mind me asking, what…uhm…what happened to your leg?” she probes. “They broke it cause I refused to get out of my cell. Said if I don’t walk out, they’ll drag me out. I refuses and here I am.”

“Oh…” she is stunned and scared for the near future. What are they going to do to me? I…I don’t think I can handle more of torture. “One more question, if you will, how long…how long have you been held here?”

“Two weeks, said they need me for something, still don’t know why though,” he answers, his voice quavering. Two weeks? He’s only been here two weeks and he already looks like that? What is going to happen to me in here? Liam please…please find me quick! I don’t know how long I’ll last in here.

 A week has passed since the gang’s return to the palace. Liam refused to address the press until he had a handle on the search team for Catheryne and Drake’s medical situation. The doctors in Vienna said that the bullet was a through and through, and it didn’t puncture any major organs. He should be arriving soon.

Liam is in his study with a bottle of Sunset Rum, one of the strongest liquor in the world. He needs something to take the edge off. He hasn’t slept at all, mostly afraid of the nightmares he’s been having since the video last week, and it was always the same dream.

It starts off as they normally do. He’s in the ballroom during the Homecoming Ball. He is giving his speech and introducing Catheryne as the new duchess in court and his future queen. He couldn’t be happier than that moment. He could finally declare his love for her. Then, that terrifying moment when all hell breaks loose. The lights turn off and the crowd surges around him. The gunshots have terrified the guests turning them into a panic mob.

His security team surrounds him, following protocol, but all he can think of is Catheryne. “Catheryne! Where is Catheryne? Guards, protect her!” The light flickers back on, blinding him momentarily. Then, he sees her standing not even 30 feet away from her. She sees the assassin pointing the gun at her. His greatest fear unfolding right before his very eyes. Catheryne, I have to get to her. He fights the attackers in front of him, hoping to make a path toward her. He hears the loud bang originating from the gun. NOOOO Catheryne!!! He stares at her, it’s as if time turned to slow motion. Pain, fear and anguish coursing through him, but then he sees Drake block the bullet from making it’s intended target. I must get to her. He uses all his energy to round off the remaining assassins. He allows himself to take a breath from the tragic accident that just occurred in his home.

Then, he hears her terrifying scream. “LIAM!! Help me!!” His eyes land on hers. She is lock on a chokehold and being dragged outside. He sprints to her aid, not giving a damn about his security’s protests. He hears them calling out from behind him.

He is in a dark hallway of the palace. Portraits of past ancestors lining the ornate wall. Five feet away from where he stands, Catheryne kneels as a captive. She is crying and sobbing on the floor. Her captor is holding a gun to her head behind her. “Please, I am begging you. Don’t do this. She has nothing to do with this! It’s me you want. Take me instead. Please. I will get on my knees and beg.” Liam falls to his knees. A king will fall to save his queen.

“It’s quite too late for that, King Liam. Look around you. For decades and centuries, you and your ancestors have corrupted this country. You don’t deserve to lead this kingdom. You are weak. Your ancestors are unworthy. Now, your precious future queen shall pay the price.”

Catheryne stares at him and mouths the words “I love you” before the assassin pulls the trigger, shattering his heart. “NOOOOOO!!!” he screams at the top of his lungs as he watches the life from her beautiful, perfect eyes disappear. He looks up to see that the man has disappeared; It doesn’t matter. His whole word just died in front of him. He sobs as he crawls to her lifeless body in front of him. She already feels so cold. “Catheryne, no, no, no. Please come back. Please, my queen!! NOOOOOOO!!” He cradles her head in his hands, shaking her fragile frame and holding her tightly against his chest. He cries harder when he sees her eyes, her lovely brown eyes, open and frozen in fear. He pushes the hair out of the way, revealing her gorgeous face. He stains it with his bloody hands. Her blood, so much blood. Blood spilled because of his crown. He continues to beg as he lives his nightmare,“I’m so sorry, Catheryne, I’m so sorry. Oh, my love, please don’t leave me! I am begging you! I love you! I love you so much! Please…please…”

He always wakes up with a jolt, his clothes soaked with sweat and his face covered with tears.

He paces the space around his study, shaking the terrible recollection away from his mind. I must stay focused! For her. He hears a knock on the door and he finishes the content in his cup before answering it. He opens to reveal Drake standing on the other side of the doorway. “Liam, I’m sorry, man!” he walks in quickly heading to the liquor cart. He pours a significant amount in a glass and downs it before pouring another round. “I tried to come as soon as I heard the news, but the fucking hospital wouldn’t release me, said I had to heal first,” he tells his brother. “Liam, tell me what to do. I want to help as much as I can.”

“You can help Bastien track down Catheryne’s whereabouts,” Liam replies as he slumps down on one of the armchairs of his office. “I don’t know how much more I can take, Drake. It’s been a week and we still haven’t gotten any leads! Nothing from the ballroom or the video. I haven’t gotten any sleep since. My assistant is stressed about handling damage control. He wasn’t cut out for this situation. The press is clamoring for answers. What am I going to tell them, Drake? What the hell am I supposed to say? Do I give in to their demands? Or do I let them be pushed into fear? What if…what if we don’t find her in time?” he voices his concerns.

“No, Liam, I’m not going to let you think like that. You need to hold it in together. I know it must be tearing you apart, but you gotta do it for her. She needs you now more than ever. Now, I know you are holding a press conference in an hour, so we need to make sure you’re presentable,” he is taken aback by his friend suddenly being the responsible one, but he’s right.

The conference starts. Cameras flash, reporters clamoring for a statement as he steps out into the lawn outside of the palace. He makes his way to the podium set up in the center and puts on his stoic countenance, hoping the façade masks the turmoil underneath. “Citizens of Cordonia, I am here to make an official statement of the tragic incident that has occurred in the palace. I am relieved to say that there were no fatalities, although there were a few that were injured who are now getting the best treatment Cordonia has to offer. Regarding the video that the assailants have sent of Lady Catheryne and their threats, I am here to say that I will not be complying to their demands. If there is anything Lady Catheryne has taught me, it is not to give up amid tragedy. I am not going to take the easy way out. I am not going to let these would-be tyrants to rule our beautiful nation and wreak havoc and fear in our streets. Cordonia, stand in courage and be immovable. We, Cordonians, will survive and we will conquer just like we always have in the past if we fight together. Thank you, sadly, I do not have the time to answer any questions this afternoon.” He steps down the stand and quickly heads inside avoiding the microphones and cameras.

He heads back into his study, heading for another shot of liquor when suddenly his phone rings in his pocket. Ugh, if this is another empty report I will kill someone! He answers the device and the voice on the other end sends a chill down his spine, “That was a touching press conference, Your Majesty, but I’m afraid it’s not enough,” he recognizes the voice from the video. He sprints towards the security room, ordering them to track the phone call. “You’d be glad to know that your precious duchess is still alive. I’m quite surprised she’s lasted this long even with our more severe methods. And I must say I see why you have taken her for liking, she’s got quite the fire and the mouth, but don’t worry in a few days I will break that hope.”

“Listen to me and you mark my words, you bastard. I don’t know who you are, but I can promise you one thing. I am going to devote all time and all resources to searching for you. If you let her go now, I can tell you that your punishment will be swift. But if you don’t, I promise you I will look for you, I will find you and I will kill you.” Liam whispers, his voice calm yet dangerous.

“Good luck. I hope you love the video I sent,” the phone call ends.

[singingpuppies]

RP With Sanders-Sides-RP-Blog-12

Who: Patton and Roman.

Part: Thirteen.

General Notes: When Patton woke up this morning, he was a regular guy. Now he’s come to find out that he was kidnapped as a baby and he’s actually a Prince, who’s set up in an arranged marriage with another Prince named Roman. How will Patton react to so much changing in his life all at once? Especially when neither of the young princes want to marry someone they’ve just met?

Warnings: None just lots of cute.

ROMAN

"Come on- we can cuddle while I tell you all about it." he says with a smile, lifting Virgil up and then laying him down onto the bed, climbing in next to him and then wrapping his arms around the other firmly. "So the first way- blunt force, and then the whole arm gets shattered. Like if you laid the arm down on a table, and smashed a rock on top of it! It'll never, ever heal right and the arm might even have to be amputated!" Remus says excitedly, before continuing to ramble on to Virgil about this stuff, kinda having to get it all out after keeping it bottled up for so long. Janus looks to Logan. "So what's the project on?" he asks him. He really hopes that Logan gets paired up with that one other kid- he doesn't want Logan to have a difficult time. Roman looks over at Patton. Roman wants a nap, and cuddles- but he doesn't know if Patton is up for cuddles right now. "Pat? Are cuddles okay? Or are you hurt so that cuddles will be uncomfortable?" he asks.

PATTON

Virgil smiled cuddling up to Remus once they were on the bed, making sure to position himself so he could play with Remus' hair while he spoke. He'd really been itching to mess up Remus' hair, it really helped calm him down. He tried to really listen to what Remus was saying, knowing how excited his boyfriend was to finally get a chance to talk about all the stuff he thought about, but Virgil couldn't help but get a bit distracted now that he had full access to mess with Remus' hair, seriously getting to play with his boyfriend's hair was quickly becoming Virgil's actual favorite thing... and his mind did keep wandering to the idea of kissing Remus again too. "I mean, I guess it also depends on how big the rock is, and if you like, dropped it from various heights that would probably also have some say in how much damage was done, but yeah, I can see that." he said to show he was still listening. 

"I'm not entirely sure yet, I'm hoping we get to pick, I'd love to have an excuse to do more research on constellations." Logan admitted. "As long as we don't have to do research on any sort of... marine related sciences, I'll be good." Logan stated simply. Patton shifted a bit before hearing the question, looking back at Roman when he spoke to him. "I think I'm okay to cuddle." he said with a small nod. He was in a bit of pain, but he couldn't imagine not being able to cuddle Roman. The bruises across his body were a bit more noticeable, having become brighter shades of blues and purples over time but other than his ribs and his head nothing really /hurt/, it was all more so just sore, so he was pretty sure cuddles would be okay.

ROMAN

Remus hummed happily when Virgil began messing with his hair, happily leaning into his hands. Remus adored having his hair played with, so he let Virgil do whatever he liked. "Yeah- and probably how dense the rock is too..." Remus says thought fully. "And then there could also be like a partial shatter, where only part of the bone splinters- like from a bullet wound that struck the bone, most likely, only half the bone would shatter. Still very difficult to heal, and very painful, but better." he informed Virgil. "My favorite one? When the bone snaps in two and then pokes through the skin!" He says with a grin. "What's wrong with marine sciences?" Janus asks. "You scared of fish or something?" he teases. Roman nods, moving off of the floor and onto the couch next to Patton, gently wrapping one of his arms around him, careful with his injuries.

PATTON

"Oh, you're right." Virgil said. "I've seen it happen before in training... luckily I've never broken a bone--" he stopped a moment to knock on his wooden nightstand a couple times before returning his hand to Remus' hair. "but I've seen it happen to a lot of the other guys who are training when shit goes wrong and it is not pretty to look at in person, let me tell you." Virgil said. "I've been pretty lucky that I've never gotten hurt too badly in training before, sprained my ankle once, same one, which might be why it sprained again, it's just like... weak, I don't know, and one time I got hit in the stomach so hard I threw up, but nothing broken, shockingly enough, even that one time I got knocked off my horse, I somehow walked away from that completely unharmed which I still don't know how I lucked out like that cause he got spooked and freaking threw me, Rems, it was crazy." Virgil stated with a shrug. Logan shook his head at the question. "Not fish, the ocean. Did you know that more than eighty percent of the ocean has never been mapped or explored, or even seen by humans, Janus? It's just a big vast pool of unanswered questions. Now that, is terrifying. Anything could be down there." he said with a very serious nod. Patton leaned against Roman as he felt his arm wrap around him, trying to let himself get comfortable. He was still feeling a bit antsy, but it was much easier to stay seated when he had a good reason, and Roman wanting cuddles was definitely a good reason to stay put.

ROMAN

"You've seen it before? Cool!" Remus says, pouting at the loss of Virgil's hand in his hand, leaning into it again when it came back. "I don't get to go out in battle as much- that's more like... Roman's thing- so I bet that he's seen all kinds of could wounds!" Remus says. "I should ask him about that..." he muses. "Wait- you got thrown off of a horse?" he asks, chuckling a little bit. Janus nods. "Yeah- that makes sense Lo... I never really thought about that before." he says. Roman held onto Patton, hiding his face in his shoulder and just... enjoying being near him. He hated having been apart from Patton- especially since Patton had been hurt and Roman hadn't been there to keep him safe.

PATTON

"Yeah, we've definitely both seen our fair share of cool wounds." he said with a nod. "Yeah, and when I say thrown off, I mean like... /thrown/. I was like... twelve? Maybe thirteen? I had just started learning to ride because I knew I wanted to be a Knight and I wanted to learn how to joust, and while I was riding the horse saw a snake and just absolutely freaked out. I am not exaggerating when I say I flew, Rems." he said with a small laugh. "Terrifying at the time, but kinda funny to look back on, since I didn't actually get hurt or anything. Mostly everyone was just impressed with how I handled the whole situation. Took it as a good sign for me growing up to be a Knight." he said, pushing more of Remus' hair forward. Ugh, why did Remus look so cute with his hair all in his face like that? "Wow, I wanna kiss you right now." Virgil mumbled before blinking. "Did I say that out loud? What were we talking about? Broken bones and horses." he said quickly before letting out a small nervous laugh, his face turning a bit red as he went back to playing with Remus' hair. 

"My father wants me to learn to swim because he thinks it's an important life skill. I suppose he's right, but it's the only lesson he's ever wanted me to learn that I've put off." Logan admitted. Patton smiled a bit when he felt Roman bury his face in his shoulder, it was nice to have Roman close to him. "I don't know how to swim either, but not because I was too scared to learn... I just... never did, I guess... I don't actually remember ever being around water, except the frog pond." Patton said, trying to think. Why had he never been by the water? He couldn't remember. Oh well, probably not important. "It's probably really fun once you get the hang of it, and I bet the ocean is really pretty in person." Patton said. "It's nice to look at from a safe distance." Logan stated.

ROMAN

Remus smiles when Virgil pushes his hair forwards, bursting into a fit of giggles when he says that he wants to kiss him. God- Remus loves this idiot. Not that he'd be telling Virgil that anytime soon. He didn't want to scare him away. "Noooo time for kisses!" he protests, smiling and turning to gently kiss Virgil. Roman looks up a little bit, but he keeps his face mostly hidden in Patton. "We've got a pool at the castle- you can learn to swim without having to go into the ocean." Roman tells Logan and Patton. Janus nods. "Yeah- if you're scared of the ocean, an enclosed, clear body of water is probably best."

PATTON

Virgil was a little embarrassed that the comment had just slipped out like that, but it was true! Remus always looked amazing, and Virgil always wanted to kiss him. He couldn't help it. He smiled a bit at Remus' reaction, though, letting out a small laugh before feeling Remus kiss him again, his hand still running through Remus' hair as he kissed back. "Really? That sounds fun." Patton said with a smile. He liked the idea of finally being able to swim. Logan on the other hand, looked a bit more nervous, but he adjusted his glasses and did his best to hide it. "I appreciate the offer, but I have a lot of school work I have to do... I probably won't have time for swimming any time soon." Yeah, Logan hadn't gotten any better at lying since their game the other day.

ROMAN

Remus smiles, leaning into the hand in his hair, pulling away from Virgil's lips to press little kisses all over his face, stopping his trail of kisses with a final kiss to Virgil's nose, biting it a bit as well just for good measure- because of course Remus did. Janus looks over at Logan. "Lo... it's alright if you're scared. You don't have to learn." he says with a little shrug. Roman nods. "Yeah, if you don't want to, we won't make you." he tells him softly.

PATTON

Virgil let out a small laugh when Remus started giving him little kisses all over his face, he loved when Remus did that, especially when Remus kissed his nose. Feeling Remus bite his nose, however, he let out a slightly louder laugh. "One of these days I'm gonna bite you back, so you better watch out." Virgil teased playfully. "I am not scared, I lack interest, there is a difference." Logan lied. Though he did appreciate the fact that they weren't going to force him into any sort of situation he wasn't comfortable with. It was very much appreciated.

ROMAN

Remus snickers, nodding and pulling Virgil closer to himself. "Oh don't worry babes- I'm counting on it." he says with a grin, dissolving into a fit of laughter. Janus just nods. He could see that Logan was scared, but he didn't want to press. Roman was starting to nod off beside Patton- his arm hurt, and he was so, so tired.

PATTON

Virgil smiled when Remus pulled him closer, letting out a small laugh. "You'll never even see it coming." Virgil said as he pushed Remus' hair in front of his eyes so he couldn't see, laughing again. Patton noticed Roman starting to nod off, moving his hand to trace random patterns on Roman's back. He didn't really think much of the fact that Roman was tired, he probably just needed a nap, and while Patton wasn't tired at all, he was more than happy to sit there so Roman could cuddle up to him and get some sleep.

ROMAN

Remus laughs loudly, shaking his head so that the hair fell away from his eyes. "When you do bite me, darling- I can think of a few places better then my nose~" Remus says with a waggle of his eyebrows. Roman sighs happily when Patton did that, relaxing, and just becoming a puddle of exhausted prince. He closes his eyes, leaning his head against Patton and falling asleep. Janus looks at Patton and Logan. "If you want- I can do one more card trick- but this time I'll show you how I did it." he says with a smile.

PATTON

Virgil's face went a bit red, but he smiled. "Oh yeah? I may have an idea or two myself." Virgil said, curious to see Remus' reaction since Virgil usually tended to get a little more flustered when Remus would make comments like that. For whatever reason, Virgil was feeling a bit more confident at the moment, and he wasn't going to question it, he was just going to go with it. Patton kissed the side of Roman's head when he fell asleep before returning his attention to Janus and Logan. "Yes!" Logan said with a bit too much excitement, but he really wanted to learn how to do one of those card tricks.

ROMAN

Remus's mouth opens a bit in shock, but he quickly grins, flushing a bit pink. "And would you care to share any of those ideas?" he asks, loving wherever this new found confidence came from in Virgil. Janus smiles, pulling out the cards again. "Okay, Logan- pick a card, any card." he says with a smile, fanning the cards out.

PATTON

Virgil couldn't help the proud little smile that crossed his face at Remus' reaction, tilting his head slightly, pretending to think about the question for a moment. He sort of wanted to get that reaction again, it was very rare that he was the one causing Remus to blush and not the other way around. It was a bit of a bold move, especially for him, but he decided to just go for it, leaning in to give Remus another kiss, deepening it a moment before starting to pull back, but just before he did, he lightly bit Remus' bottom lip. 

Once he pulled away completely, his own face a bit red now, he gave an innocent shrug. "That was the idea that was coming to mind the most." he said, the words coming out a bit more shy than he'd wanted them to, but he'd been thinking about doing that for a while and he was a bit giddy now that he'd actually gone for it. He glanced back at Remus, hoping it was okay. Logan looked at the deck, tilting his head slightly. "Am I suppose to show you the card once I've picked it or am I specifically suppose to hide the card from you?" he asked curiously.

ROMAN

Remus eagerly leaning in for the kiss, surprised and pleased when Virgil deepened it, letting out a quiet gasp of surprise when Virgil bit his lip while pulling away. A small blush crosses his face again, and he looks down at Virgil, a smile crossing his face. "Well I can certainly tell you that this was a wonderful idea." Remus says with a smile. He'd definitely rile Virgil up more if this was going to be the result that he got- because he went weak in the knees when Virgil had done that. Not that he'd ever admit it. Janus shakes his head. "Don't show me the card. Just remember which one it is. You can show Patton too."

PATTON

Virgil smiled a bit more at Remus' reaction. "I'm not gonna lie, I've wanted to do that since I was like... fifteen." he admitted with a bit of a shy laugh before raising his shoulders a bit. "It's a little weird, I know, but you seemed like a biter, I wanted to bite you first." he added with another laugh. Probably embarrassing to admit, but he didn't really have to feel embarrassed with Remus. Logan nodded, understanding, picking the 3 of hearts and working over time to hide it from Janus, showing it to Patton so he could see it too.

ROMAN

Remus laughs a bit when Virgil said he's wanted to do that for that long, internally thinking that he should have asked Virgil out earlier- that was a long time- and he smiles. "I'm glad you decided to." he says softly, leaning to drop one more kiss to Virgil's lips. Janus takes the card facedown, putting it on the bottom of the deck, before quickly shuffling the cards, looking through the cards, before pulling out a card that was not the 3 of hearts. "This your card?" he asks Logan, wrapping an arm around him and showing him, with his other hand discreetly shoving the 3 of hearts into Logan's pocket, in a way that Logan or Patton wouldn't have been able to see.

PATTON

Virgil smiled a bit at the sound of Remus' laugh. "It's totally dorky, I know... but that's about as creative as fifteen year old Virgil got, he was pretty innocent." Virgil said. "Eighteen year old Virgil on the other hand..." he mumbled before biting his lip. "Kidding! Kidding, kind of... no, I'm just kidding, please don't be uncomfortable." he said quickly. He'd be lying if he said he hadn't thought about being intimate with Remus, but he didn't want to bring it up and risk making Remus uncomfortable. It probably wasn't something he had to really worry about, they were dating, and Remus had a pretty raunchy sense of humor so he probably had no problem with Virgil thinking about that, but still, he didn't want to make his boyfriend feel pushed to do anything he wasn't ready for. When Remus kissed him though, he smiled into the kiss, it was a great way to calm his anxious mind. Logan was a bit surprised when the card Janus held. up wasn't his card. Part of him thought about lying just so Janus wouldn't feel bad that he'd messed the trick up, but then he remembered Janus was great at picking up on lying, so he decided against it. "No?" he said as he looked at the card, a bit confused.

ROMAN

Remus laughs a bit at Virgil's statement. "Okay VeeVee- don't worry about it. I'm not uncomfortable, it's not like I don't make a dirty joke every few seconds." he says with a little smile. "And besides- I'm sure you look much better undressed than you do clothed- and that's a sight I'd die to see." he tells him. Remus definitely had thought about Virgil that way before- he was Remus, of course he had. He had never seriously said anything about ti though, had only made jokes, because he didn't want Virgil to get all anxious about it. Janus just smirks, moving away from Lo. "Check your pocket, won't you Lo?" he asks.

PATTON

Virgil let out a small relieved breath upon realizing that he hadn't accidentally made Remus uncomfortable. "I know, but just because you make jokes doesn't mean-- I don't wanna just assume you're comfortable with everything. I wouldn't want you to feel like... pressured or anything. I don't even know how much you've actually done, and with who and... I should shut up now, shouldn't I?" Virgil asked with a nervous laugh. When Remus commented that he would die to see him undressed, he felt his face get hot again, giving Remus a bit of a shy smile. "So... probably a stupid question but... I'm not the only one who's thought about it, then? Good to know." he said, biting back a smile. Logan furrowed his brow in confusion. "My pocket?" he repeated before sticking his hands in his pockets, blinking a few times in shock when he pulled out the card. "How... how'd you?" Logan stuttered, starring at the card, Patton's smile growing as he realized it was, in fact, their card.

ROMAN

"No no! You don't need to shut up babes." Remus told him. "No, you're definitely not the only one who'd thought about it. And you don't need to feel embarrassed to talk to me about this stuff. I want you to talk to me because it makes for like- a healthy relationship." he says with a little smile. Janus grins at Logan's reaction, smiling. "Want me to tell you how I did it?" he asks, taking the card back and playing with the beck in his fingers.

PATTON

Virgil smiled a bit, giving a small nod to what Remus said. "Yeah, you're right, you're right." he said. A healthy relationship definitely sounded good to him, and it was really nice to know he could talk to Remus about all this stuff without things getting weird between them. "So... it's okay to ask how many people you've been with before me?" he asked after a moment, glancing back at Remus. Logan examined the card as closely as he could before Janus took it back. "Yes, yes, how'd you do that?" Logan questioned. "Magic, Logan." Patton answered as if he thought it should've been obvious.

ROMAN

Remus nods. "Of course you can ask." Remus tells him. "Relationship-wise? I've only been with one other person- and it didn't last that long. My parents tried to set me up in an arranged marriage too- I scared the guy away after the first day... they never tried that again. I've fooled around with a few people though, nothing serious." he told Virgil. "Can I ask you the same question?" Janus giggles at Patton's answer. He shows Logan the deck of cards. "I memorized the card on the bottom of the deck, and then when you gave me your card, I slipped it under, and when I shuffled I was careful to keep the two together. I found the card under the one I remembered, and slipped it into my sleeve quickly- then I showed you a random card to distract you while I slipped this one into your pocket." he explains to the two of them.

PATTON

Virgil gave a half smile. "Oh yeah, I remember that... I already liked you when your parents had that whole arranged marriage idea so... those were dark times." he admitted with a small laugh. "I went on a few dates with a guy around that same time, mostly to try and get over you since I figured you were engaged... didn't know it was gonna only last a day at the time." he laughed. "Saw him for maybe... two weeks? We made out a bit, but nothing past that... he wanted to move too fast for me and considering I was still hung up on you, I had absolutely no interest in that so we just sorta broke things off." he said with a shrug. "Never fooled around with anyone myself so... you get to be all my firsts..." he said with an innocent shrug before letting out a shy laugh. "But how did you slip it into my pocket without me noticing? I notice everything." Logan questioned. "Magic, Logan." Patton insisted again.

ROMAN

When Virgil tells Remus that he's going to be all his firsts, Remus wraps his arms around the other tightly, pulling him close to himself. "Than I will make them the best firsts ever." He says firmly, and that's a promise he intends to do his best to keep. Janus grins, although he thinks that Patton is just doing it for Logan's sake. "Lo- it's all about putting your focus where I wanted it. You weren't expecting me to be wrong, so you were scrutinizing the card closely, looking for errors in your own memory- so you were distracted. And of course- I've also got nimble fingers, and practice- it's easy or me to do stuff like that."

PATTON

Virgil smiled a bit when he felt Remus pull him closer, nuzzling his face into Remus' arm and just letting himself enjoy being close to his boyfriend. "I'm very much looking forward to that." he admitted before looking back up at Remus, leaning in to give him another kiss. Logan listened carefully to Janus' explanation. It did make sense, and Logan did love when something made logical sense. "That's genius." Logan said, clearly in awe. Patton didn't totally get what Janus was saying, figuring it was all just fancy talk for magic, or that he was making everything sound more technical than it actually was because of how much Logan liked things that had answers.

ROMAN

Remus kisses Virgil back softly, smiling into the kiss, eventually pulling away to look at him. "Ready to go back, VeeVee?" he asks him softly, gently taking one of Virgil's hands in his. Janus smiles, tipping his hat a bit. "What can I say? Told you there's an explanation for everything." he says with a smile. He was happy that he could make Logan this happy. "Do you wanna try?" he asks, passing Logan the deck of cards. "It's okay if you don't get it right away- these things are difficult, and take practice." he says.

PATTON

Virgil let out a content little sigh. "I mean, the answer is always going to be no to the question of 'am I ready for my one on one Remus time to be over' but sure, we can head back in there. We've been in here for a while, people are probably starting to think about lunch." he said, playing with Remus' hand in his a bit. Logan gave a small nod, really wanting to give it a try. He was a bit nervous about the part where he had to slip the card in someone's pocket without them noticing, he doubted he'd be very good at that, but he wanted to get better at it. Logan wasn't that familiar with the sensation of not being instantly good at something, but he knew the day was going to come eventually where he tried something new and it didn't come naturally to him, so he was prepared incase this was it.

ROMAN

Remus nods, helping Virgil stand and then grabbing his crutches, knowing Virgil probably didn't want to be carried everywhere. "Here/" he says, offering them to him. Janus smiles at Logan encouragingly, sitting down near him and watching as Logan picked up the cards. "I'm sure that you're going to do great." he says with an encouraging smile.

PATTON

Virgil appreciated the help standing up, taking the crutches from Remus. "Thank you, Rems." he said with a smile before heading out of the room. "Alright, the kitchen is open, we're now taking lunch requests." Virgil announced as he made his way to the kitchen. "Crofters!" Logan said quickly as he took the cards from Janus. "Sandwiches it is." Virgil said as he finally reached the kitchen. "That's not what I said." Logan stated. "That's what I heard." Virgil replied, Logan shrugging it off before returning his attention to the deck. "Put in your sandwich requests now, please and thank you." Virgil continued as he grabbed some plates and setting them on the counter one at a time since he was still holding the crutches. Logan shuffled the cards, something he already knew how to do, trying to remember all the steps to this that Janus had told him. "Okay, pick a card." he said as he held the deck out to Janus, hoping this at least somewhat worked.

ROMAN

Remus grabs bread and sandwich ingredients, helping him out as much as he can. "We can make Crofters sandwiches for them? And we can put peanut butter? Those go good together." Remus offers to Virgil. It'd probably make Logan happy. Janus nods, taking a card from Logan's hand and looking at it, showing it to Patton. 6 of clubs. He passes it to Logan facedown.

PATTON

Virgil smiled at Remus. "You read my mind... it's just fun to mess with him sometimes, I'm determined to get that kid to loosen up." Virgil admitted. "Though I might make some other kinds of sandwiches too, just incase everyone isn't in the mood for pb and j." he said, wanting to give Patton options since he still didn't know Patton well enough to know what he really liked. He opened his fridge, seeing that he had more than enough turkey, ham, tuna, bacon, tomatoes, lettuce and all kinds of ingredients to make all kinds of sandwiches. He was relieved he had enough food to keep all these people fed since they'd probably be staying with him for a while. "We love options." he said with a small laugh as he looked back at Remus. "What are you in the mood for?" he asked him. Logan was surprisingly good at the next few steps. He'd memorized the card on the bottom of the deck like Janus said, he was careful to keep those two cards together when he shuffled, he picked a random incorrect card to show Janus. It was the exact step he figured he'd fail at where he messed up. He was no good at discreetly sneaking the card into Janus' pocket without being noticed, his arms were a lot shorter than Janus' were and it was difficult to even get the card near Janus' pocket let alone doing so without being seen.

ROMAN

Remus nods. "M'kay VeeVee." he says, kissing his cheek and then grabbing some stuff from the fridge. "I'm currently in the mood for you- but I don't think that now is an appropriate time for that, so I'd say something with bacon?" Remus says with a lopsided grin. Janus watches, he knows that the trick is coming, but he attempts to be unobservant as he takes the card from Logan's hand. "No- this isn't my card." he says with a small smile.

PATTON

Virgil blushed a bit. "I mean you could'a had me when we were in the other room, just saying." he replied with a bit of a smirk before tilting his head slightly in thought. "Okay... we can do something with turkey and bacon, or a bacon and eggs sorta breakfast sandwich, oh, or, I do make a pretty awesome grilled double cheese and bacon sandwich." he offered. Logan was really trying to be discreet, but he couldn't help but have to lean forward quite obviously to even reach Janus' pocket with his hand, only tucking part of the card in his pocket in a way Janus probably definitely felt before it fell out of his pocket and hit the floor. Logan glanced at it before glancing back at Janus. "It's on the floor." he stated, his nose scrunching slightly. "My arms are short." he added.

ROMAN

"Guess I'll just have to have you later then." he shrugs. Remus smiles a bit at Virgil's words, kissing his cheek and then jumping up to sit on the countertop. "Grilled cheese sounds nice." he says with a smile. Janus smiles, picking the card off of the floor. "You did good Lo. You got the right card, if your arms were just a smidge longer, you would have pulled it off." he tells him with a smile. "I'm proud of ya." he says, ruffling Logan's hair.

PATTON

Virgil blushed, smiling to himself at Remus' comment. "You got it, Rems." he said as he started getting the ingredients he needed together. "What do you think Roman'll want when he wakes up?" he asked curiously. "I wish my arms were longer." Logan stated before a genuine smile crossed his face when Janus said he was proud of him, messing up his hair a bit. Janus was proud of him? Really? He smiled more at the thought. "What kind of sandwich do you want Pat?" Virgil called out, Patton bit his lip and shrugged. "I don't know. Anything's fine." he said back. Virgil looked over the ingredients he had. "You like turkey?" he asked, Patton nodded. "Cool, I'll do something with that. Janus?" Virgil called out. "Do you even have Crofters?" Logan asked. "Sorry, I already let Remus make your sandwich out of stuff he found in the trash, can't make another one." Virgil teased without turning to look away from what he was doing. Logan rolled his eyes. "Still acting like a child, I see." Logan said, though he was still smiling... how could he not when Janus had just said he was proud of him?

ROMAN

"Roman likes ham sandwiches." Remus tells Virgil, swinging his legs on the edge of the counter. Janus shrugs. "Hey- even if your arms are short, you're stll growing, right?" he asks with a smile. He was so happy to see that Logan was smiling, really smiling now. He chuckles a bit at Virgil's teasing of Logan from the kitchen. "C'mon Virge- leave the kid alone- he just wants some Crofters!" he says with a laugh, smiling.

PATTON

"Cool, I can work with that." Virgil said with a nod. "That's true. Perhaps I should focus on tricks that don't require longer arms in the mean time." Logan said thoughtfully. "Fine, but just because it's his birthday." Virgil calls back to Janus. "It's not my birthday, my birthday was a few days ago." Logan corrected. "Tomato, tomahto, just be glad I'm not making you eat Remus' trash sandwich." Virgil said with a laugh. "Fine." Logan said, glancing back at Virgil's birthday gift that was still on the table. "What do you want, Janus?" he asked, still trying to figure out what it was he wanted himself.

ROMAN

Janus nods. "Of course. I can show you some more after lunch." he says with a smile. "It doesn't matter I'll take whatever." he says. Remus pouts at Virgil. "But babes- a trash sandwich sounds good!" he protested. Roman shifts a little bit next to Patton on the couch. His head was better but /fuck/ his arm hurt so much more... what did he do??

PATTON

Logan smiled at Janus, excited to learn more when they were all finished eating. "Blame Lo for your lack of trash sandwiches, he wants Crofters." he teased before giving Remus a quick kiss. "Okay, I'll make you something awesome, promise." Virgil called out to Janus before he looked in the fridge again, trying to decide what to make for both himself and Janus. He did have chicken, he could do something with that. He could make more grilled cheese, or tuna... or... he let out a gasp when he spotted something on one of the shelves. "I forgot I had this." he said excitedly, practically hugging the container of meatballs he'd made, forgetting Remus was in the kitchen with him or even that anyone else was in the house for a moment. He'd been planning on making some spaghetti to go with them, but that was before he and the group made spaghetti just the other day... perhaps he should make a meatball sub for himself before they went bad since he probably wouldn't make pasta too soon, and if he did he could always just make more. Patton noticed Roman starting to wake up, looking at him and tilting his head slightly. He looked like he was in pain. "Are you okay, Ro?" he asked softly.

ROMAN

Janus nods, giving Virgil a smile. "I'm holding you to that!" he says seriously. Remus smiles at the quick kiss, hopping up from the counter when Virgil hugged the container of meatballs. "What's that?" he asks, going over to where his boyfriend was and peeking around him at the container. Roman blinks, looking at Patton. The short answer was 'no, everything hurts' but he nods, hiding his face in Patton's side again. "Head hurts." he told him quietly, closing his eyes again.

PATTON

Virgil looked back at his boyfriend, giving a shy little shrug. "Nothing that exciting, sometimes I just get overly excited when I'm making food, it's stupid." Virgil said, shrugging it off as his face got a bit red from embarrassment at how excited he got over food. For a while before he'd found this friend group, before he even knew he wanted to be a Knight, he tried all kinds of different activities to try and calm his anxious mind, one of which had been cooking at his mother's suggestion. Sometimes he'd get caught up in what he was making and get just as excited about it as he did when he use to cook with his mom as a kid... he knew it was stupid, so he tried to brush it off. Patton frowned, gently running his hand through Roman's hair, hoping it'd make his head feel better. "I'm sorry." he said softly. He didn't like seeing his boyfriend in pain. "Maybe we should tell Logan, he might have something in the first aid kit you could take for your head?" Patton suggested, his own head was still hurting, but he was way more worried about Roman.

ROMAN

Remus shakes his head. "No no no! VeeVee it's adorable!" he tells him, smiling at him softly. "I thought it was cute- you get adorable when you get excited." he says with a smile, kissing Virgil's temple. Roman gently leaned into the hand on his hair, closing his eyes a little bit. "It's okay Pat." he says, before shaking his head when Patton suggested that they tell Logan. That was the /last/ thing he wanted- Logan would probably figure out that his arm was hurt as well. "No, it's okay- just a little headache." he tries to assure him gently. "I'll be alright- please don't worry." he tells him.

PATTON

Virgil smiled, blushing a bit when Remus said it was adorable. "Sorry, I just come from a very food driven family... I'm pretty sure 'eat, you'll feel better' is my mom's catch phrase, sometimes my mind just... goes back to that headspace. Honestly, if she were here right now, she'd probably complain we were all too skinny and then say our injuries would heal faster if we had some meat on us and then force us all to eat her cooking." he said with a nervous laugh, still feeling like he had to justify his excitement despite the fact that Remus had just said it was adorable. When Remus continued, he smiled a bit more. "Yeah?" he asked, feeling his face get a bit more red at the combination of the comment and Remus kissing his temple. Patton was still worried, but he gave a small nod. Sometimes people got headaches when they were hungry, maybe Roman's head hurt so bad because of the combination of whatever injury he already had and because he hadn't eaten enough today? Maybe the meal would make him feel better? If it didn't, though, Patton did plan on bringing it up again. He didn't like seeing Roman in pain. "Okay, if you say so." he said softly, continuing to play with Roman's hair.

ROMAN

Remus chuckles softly when Virgil talks about his family. "I'd love to meet her one day." he says with a little smile. "Yeah- of course Vee!" he says brightly. "Now come on- I'll help you make the food- and I promise not to poison it even a little bit!" he says with a smile. Roman nods, grateful for the distracting hand in his hair. He holds onto Patton, unwilling to let go... ever. He kisses his cheek gently, keeping his eyes closed, but even just moving to kiss Patton's cheek was torture on his arm.

PATTON

Virgil smiled a bit more. "Yeah? I mean, my family is... they can be a lot, sometimes, or all the time... but... she'd be really excited to meet you." Virgil said with a small nod. Maybe when all their lives went back to normal, he'd set something up for Remus to meet his family, but definitely not until his ankle healed and his black eye was gone because if his mother saw that he'd never hear the end of it. "Comforting." he said with a small laugh before starting to make the food. "You wanna get started on Logan's sandwich for me? I've got like... three different kinds of Crofters in the cabinet and it's right by the peanut butter so..." he said as he gestured to the cabinet before returning his attention to the sandwich he was making. He made Roman's sandwich first, using ciabatta bread, ham, a very thinly sliced tomato, some mustard, provolone, herb mayo, arugula, and red onion (also sliced thin). He thought for a moment, what would his mom pair with this sandwich as a side? 

Coleslaw, probably, he was pretty sure he had that. He decided to just put any sides in the center of the table, just incase any sides he decided on people didn't like, that way they could choose, despite knowing that's not the way his mom would do it, but after seeing Patton's reaction to carrots, he didn't want to give anyone a side they disliked by accident. He then got started on a sandwich for Janus, deciding on chicken, grabbing the chicken along with some Granny Smith apples, celery, walnuts, dried cranberries, mayonnaise, yogurt, honey mustard, lemon juice, and salt, throwing it all in a medium sized bowl and starting to mix it. Okay, so maybe he'd taken Janus holding him to his promise of an amazing sandwich a little too seriously, and maybe a bit of his mom was coming out, but it couldn't have been that shocking, she had raised him, he was going to have some similiar traits. Patton continued playing with Roman's hair, trying not to worry, and failing. He glanced over at Logan and Janus, wondering if they'd noticed how Roman seemed to be doing, and if they were as worried as he was.

ROMAN

"VeeVee- darling, sweetheart- even if your family is a bit much, I'm a lot much." he tells him as he goes over to the cabinets and grabs the peanut butter and the crofters- grabbing the strawberry- he thought that Logan liked that one. He put it on a plate, looking over at what Virgil was making. "Wow- Virgey, that looks really good." he says with a smile, looking over at him and the food that he was currently making. He moves, kissing his cheek as he sets down the plate on the table. "Virge- anything else you need help with?" he asks. Roman blinks, smelling the air. The food smelled... really good, and Roman was hungry- maybe he'd feel better if he ate? Janus was a bit worried about Roman as well- he really hopes that it was just Roman's head hurting, and not anything else.

PATTON

Virgil smiled a bit at Remus' comment. Honestly? Remus would probably fit right in with his family, and that thought made him really happy. Virgil had just finished Janus' sandwich, making his own meatball sub as he looked back at Remus. "Thanks." he said with a bit of a proud smile before starting on Remus' sandwich, grabbing mozzarella cheese, cheddar cheese, bacon, vienna bread, and red onion, getting started. When Remus asked if he could help with anything else, he looked over at the table. "You think we should set the table and eat there? Patton's probably going stir crazy over there on that couch for so long." Virgil said, figuring it might be good for Patton to walk around even if it was just the short distance of the couch to the table... maybe Remus could set the table for him. Virgil was right, Patton was definitely getting more and more antsy the more he sat there, but right now he was too worried about Roman to give it much thought.

ROMAN

Remus nods, smiling at him and grabbing plates and such, wanting to set the table and help Virgil out. "I can set the table." he says with a smile, putting the plates out, and then the cutlery and the sandwiches out on the table, setting them down and then putting all of the sides on the table as well. Roman looks over at the table, and he stands, waiting a minute for his vision to fix itself, it going black for a second as he stood up. He offers his unhurt hand to Patton to help him stand. "Ready to go to the table?" he asks him. Janus stands up, looking over at the table. "Looks good, Virgil." he tells him.

PATTON

Virgil finished Remus' sandwich, making Patton's last, making him a turkey bacon grilled cheese with the cheese and bacon left over from Remus' sandwich, adding some pickle and tomato slices in there as well. "Thank you, Rems." he said as Remus set the table. He put together as many sides as he could think of that paired well with sandwiches, coleslaw, fries (regular and sweet potato), potato salad, fruit salad, chips, he would've even made chili if he had a bit more time, but the rest were things he already had and he didn't want to make a room full of hungry people wait. Once everything was done and the table was set, he gave a bit of a proud smile, it'd been a while since he'd made a big meal for a big group of people, he thought it turned out pretty well. 

Logan noticed the look on Roman's face when he stood up, so he held his hand out to Patton as well, having a feeling Patton might need more help getting up than Roman was able to give right now. Patton took both their hands, struggling more than he expected to when he tried to stand up. Logan was smaller than Roman, but he made sure to take on most of the work of helping Patton up and keeping him balanced and feeling like he had something secure to hold onto, not wanting Roman to exert himself too much and get dizzy or something. Actually walking proved to be much easier than getting up and getting down from places, which Patton was definitely grateful for. Virgil looked back at Janus at the compliment. "Thanks, I worked the hardest on your sandwich, so let me know if I did good." he said with a small laugh as he sat himself down at the table, setting his crutches down on the floor next to him.

ROMAN

Remus smiles at Virgil. "Not a problem VeeVee." he tells him softly. "You cook really good." he tells him with a smile, gently wrapping his arms around him gently. He moves to sit down on one of he chairs, pulling Virgil into his lap and holding his boyfriend close, kissing his nose gently. Roman walks over to the table with Patton, sitting down next to him and helping him into his seat as best as possible, before sitting down, fighting to keep his eyes open. Janus sits down at the table, looking at the sandwich. "Thanks Virgil- it looks amazing." he says with a smile. "I'm sure it's amazing."

PATTON

Virgil's smile grew at the compliment, laughing a bit when Remus pulled him into his lap, his face going a bit red when Remus kissed his nose. Man, he loved that. Patton was trying not to worry about Roman, he'd told him not to, but he couldn't help it. Roman didn't seem okay. All of Logan's attention went to his sandwich the moment Patton was seated and he was sure he was okay, instantly taking a very happy bite.

ROMAN

Remus smiles at him, holding onto him and taking a bite of his sandwich, humming at the taste. "This is great VeeVee!" he says with a smile, smiling brightly and taking another bite quickly, alternating between pressing kisses to Virgil's face and taking bites of his food. Roman ate slowly, and it took all of his energy for him to pretend that he was okay- bur he gently held Patton's hand under the table how he usually would, slowly eating. Janus took a bite of the sandwich, and in the future he's definitely coming around Virgil's house more often if that means more food like this.

PATTON

Virgil smiled. "Glad you like it, though you haven't lived until you've tried my mom's cooking." he admitted, laughing a bit when he noticed Remus was alternating between eating and sneaking him kisses. He took a bite of his own food, letting out a happy sigh. After last night, he needed that freaking meatball sub. Patton finally allowed himself to focus on his food despite his worry, taking a bite and blinking once... wow... it was so good, he really liked it. It may have been his new favorite sandwich. Logan grabbed some of the fruit salad in the middle of the table, figuring his father would want him to if he were here.

ROMAN

"Really? That's even more incentive to meet your family." Remus says with a smile, holding Virgil close. He was glad that his boyfriend had relaxed and calmed down from the day before. He had hated seeing Virgil like that- had hated seeing him hurting. Roman was in too much pain to really register the food- but it was really good. Janus ate a bit more slowly than he usually would, savoring the food and taking some of the fries from the middle of the table.

PATTON

"Well, meeting my family means meeting many people... there's a lot of us, lots of names to remember." Virgil said before taking another bite of his food. "I can see if my mom would be cool with meeting you for the first time when it's just her and my dad so you're not completely overwhelmed." Virgil offered. Patton continued to eat, grabbing some of the sides from the center of the table as well, he hadn't realized how hungry he was until just now. "How big can your family possibly be?" Logan questioned as he overheard Virgil and Remus talking, not sure why Virgil seemed so worried about Remus being overwhelmed by meeting them all at once. "Well, there's my older sister, and her husband, and they have five kids, and then there's my older brother, and his wife, and they have three... and my other older brother and his husband just adopted twins... plus my grandparents on both sides of the family, so if Remus were to come over when everyone was there he'd be meeting... 22 people." Virgil stated with a small nod. "Oh my God." Logan said after a moment. "I don't even know 22 people..." Patton said, just as shocked as Logan. "No wonder you have anxiety, that house must be so loud." Logan commented, unable to even imagine it, all his life had been just him and his dad, that many people in one house, especially a small house and not a big castle like they'd all grown up in, it was probably easy to get overwhelmed. 

ROMAN

Remus's eyes widen, and he grins. "That house sounds like chaos! Sounds amazing!" he says with a smile. "But if you're worried about it, I can just meet your parents first." Remus says with a little smile. 22 People.... that was a lot of people to impress, and Remus desperately wanted to impress them- he really wanted Virgil's family to like him. Roman blinks, looking over over at Virgil. "I have 5 friends- I can't imagine growing up with that many people..." he says, and he finishes his food. He just wants to go back to the couch and sleep again.... Janus nods. "That is a lot of people... I only had one sister growing up." Janus says. He usually didn't like to talk about her- hated when people picked up on his use of the past tense. 

PATTON

"Definitely chaos. Been trying to save up my money so I can buy my parents a bigger place, or at the very least fix up the place they currently live in... lots of things end up broken with 22 people in one tiny house, you know? Doubt it'll be this years Christmas gift, but maybe I'll have enough by next year." Virgil said before taking another bite of his food. "This is the messiest sandwich, wanna try it?" Virgil offered to Remus, holding it out incase he wanted a bite. "Well, growing up, it was me, my parents, both sets of grandparents, and then my three older siblings, which is only like... ten people, so it wasn't as bad except at holidays when my parents siblings would show up with all their kids but, I'm not gonna lie to you, it could be... really overwhelming. But now that my siblings are all grown and married and have far too many children, it's even more overwhelming." Virgil said with a nod. Logan turned to look at Janus when he spoke. "Had?" he couldn't help but repeat. He was probably reading too much into the past tense... Janus probably just meant in comparison to Virgil's large family growing up in the past.

ROMAN

Remus looks at Virgil. "You want to get them a bigger house? That's sweet VeeVee... but you do realize that you're dating a prince now, right? I can make that happen." he tells him, before nodding. "Of course!" he says, taking a bite of the sandwich, smiling at the taste, dropping another kiss to Virgil's cheek. Roman looks over at Janus when Logan points that out. Janus had a sister? Janus nods when Logan asks if he had a sister, for once, his carefully crafted facade crumbling. Whenever he spoke about her, he never seemed to be able to keep his composure. "Yeah... had. She- she's not around anymore." Janus says quietly, suddenly not as hungry as he was.

PATTON

Virgil blinked. No, that had actually never once crossed his mind. "Are you... really? But... no, I could never ask you to do that." he said quickly. The fact that Remus had even offered was incredible and so sweet and Virgil was pretty sure he would've cried if they weren't in a room full of people, but he couldn't actually as Remus to do that for his family, especially when Remus hadn't even met them yet, it was too much to ask for. Logan instantly felt bad for bringing it up the moment that he saw Janus' reaction to the question. The last thing Logan ever wanted was to be the reason Janus was upset. Setting his food back down on his plate, he shifted awkwardly in his seat before looking back at Janus. "I'm sorry." he said, apologizing for bringing it up and for Janus' loss. He'd never lost anyone before, it'd always just been him and his father, he couldn't even imagine what Janus felt.

ROMAN

"You can absolutely ask me to do that. I'm being completely serious." he told him firmly, and then he looked over. Wait- Janus had a dead sister? Oh... he fell quiet. It was one thing to joke about death, and another entirely to hear about a friends dead relative. Janus looks over at Logan. "It's okay. Not your fault." he says simply, fiddling with his gloves in his hands.

PATTON

Virgil was about to protest some more, say that he couldn't ask that much of Remus, but he stopped when he realized what Janus and Logan were talking about. He'd go back to insisting he couldn't ask that much of Remus later. Logan never had been good with feelings, it wasn't something that came all that naturally to him, and the way his father had raised him had only made that worse instead of better. But he cared about Janus a lot, and he didn't like seeing him upset. Getting out of his chair, he walked over to Janus and gave him a hug, hoping it wasn't too awkward, he wasn't really use to giving people hugs, he wasn't sure he was doing it right, but people found hugs comforting when they were sad, right? He wasn't sure if Janus wanted to talk about it, or if he'd rather the subject drop entirely, but Logan was happy to do either if it meant making Janus feel better, he'd sit there and listen to Janus talk about his sister for hours, or he'd ramble on about some science thing if Janus wanted a distraction. Whatever he preferred.

ROMAN

Janus was... very surprised, when he received a hug from Logan, to say the least. But he quickly hugged him back, holding onto him for a moment- it definitely wasn't awkward, and even if it was, Logan was /trying/. Janus took a breath, regaining his composure. He wasn't going to cry in front of them. Absolutely not. Later, Remus would definitely tell Virgil that he'd be doing it anyways, but for now... he just felt bad for Janus. He couldn't imagine ever losing Roman.

PATTON

Logan wasn't going to end the hug until he got some sort of sign that Janus wanted him to. He noticed he was starting to regain his composure, and he was pretty sure it was safe to assume that Janus would prefer to change the subject and forget about it for now than to talk about her. Which was fine, Logan could do that. Trying to think of something he could say that would distract Janus from his more negative feelings, he glanced up at Janus. "Did you know that there is enough DNA in the average person’s body to stretch from the sun to Pluto and back seventeen times?" he asked, hoping he was doing a good job of distracting Janus from his sadness.

ROMAN

When Logan tells him that, Janus pulls back from the hug and looks at him. "I didn't know that." he says, shaking his head. "Can you tell me more about that?" he asks him. Janus is very grateful for Logan talking about something else. Janus... hates talking about his sister. It always left him vulnerable and emotional and just generally was not a pleasant subject- but it served to remind him of why he had to keep his own magic hidden.

PATTON

Logan sat back down when Janus pulled away from the hug, nodding at the question. "Well, the human genome, you know, the genetic code in each human cell, contains 23 DNA molecules which are called chromosomes, and each contains from 500,000 to 2.5 million nucleotide pairs. DNA molecules of this size are 1.7 to 8.5 cm long when they're uncoiled, which is about 5 cm on average. There are about 37 trillion cells in the human body, so if you were to uncoil all of the DNA encased in each cell and place the molecules end to end, it would sum to a total length of 2×1014 meters, which is enough for 17 Pluto round-trips... and the distance from the sun to Pluto and then back again is 1.2×1013 meters." Logan rambled before taking another bite of his sandwich, hoping that Janus found this comforting. "Speaking of DNA, did you know that we each share 99% of our DNA with every other human? It sort of just goes to show that we’re far more alike than we all are different." Logan pointed out.

ROMAN

Janus calms as he listens to Logan speak, nodding a bit. "Really? That's fascinating." he says, offering Logan a small smile. "Thank you." he tells him softly, before turning to Virgil. "Do you want me to help clear the table?" he asks, already standing up to start cleaning up the dishes and things on the table.

PATTON

Logan gave Janus a small smile when he thanked him, glad that what he'd done seemed to work to help Janus feel better. Virgil nodded a bit when Janus offered to help him clear the table. "That'd be great, thanks Janus... don't touch that though, I'm still eating that." he said, pointing to his plate. "Guard my plate for me, Rems... if you're having trouble finding the food important enough to protect, just pretend its lasagna, that should help." Virgil said as he kissed Remus' cheek. Virgil was a bit of a slow eater, and he hadn't eaten that much yesterday due to how awkward that dinner was with the royals, so Virgil was incredibly hungry and definitely still eating despite the fact that everyone else seemed to be done. He grabbed some of the empty plates, hopping over to the sink with them, relieved Janus was helping him. Logan followed after Janus, wanting to help as well. Patton looked back at Roman, still worried, glancing at Remus. Maybe being Roman's brother, he'd notice something was wrong and he'd be able to get Roman to tell him more than the others had.

ROMAN

Remus nods, taking Virgil's request seriously and holding the plate close to himself so that he could protect Virgil's food, smiling when Virgil kissed his cheek. Although... something did seem off about Roman to him. Janus helped Virgil clean up as much as he could, finding it distracting, a good way to get out of his own head. Roman looks at Patton. "Ready to go back to the couch?" he asks him, offering his uninjured hand, and Roman looks pretty much dead on his feet, he loathes the idea of having to look at what was undoubtedly happening under the sleeve of his shirt.

PATTON

Virgil had basically cleared the table with Janus and Logan's help, letting Logan get started washing dishes as he put any left overs in containers so he could store them for later. Patton hesitated at the question. Honestly, he didn't want to go back to the couch, he wanted to be up, but Roman didn't look like he was doing well enough to be up, and he definitely didn't look like he would be able to help Patton stand again without collapsing or something. Patton couldn't keep listening to Roman... he was worried. "Like I said, that's a pull out couch, so if you guys wanna pull it out and grab some extra pillows and sheets and stuff from the closet so you're more comfortable tonight, go for it... Janus can help you, right, Janus?" Virgil said as he glanced back at him, knowing Patton probably didn't have the strength right now to wrestle with a pull out couch and Roman was looking worse by the second... putting away the last of the leftovers, he turned to look at Roman. "You okay? You don't look so good." Virgil said.

ROMAN

When they were finished clearing the table, Remus set Virgil's sandwich down, getting up and walking into the living room, worriedly looking at Roman. Janus nods. "Of course." he says, going to go and grab some extra blankets and pillows, but he pauses when Roman is asked if he's okay. "Roman? Are you okay?" he asks. Roman nods, even though he's pale, and looks like he's about to fall over. "Roman- what is going on?" he asks. Roman shakes his head, sitting on the couch. "Nothing! Don't worry, please." he asks everyone. Remus frowns. "I'm calling bullshit, Roman."

PATTON 

Logan finished putting away the clean dishes around the same time the pull out couch was ready, going to help Janus put the sheets on it. When he noticed the conversation going on, however, he stops, looking up at Janus. "I told you he was lying." he said quietly. Patton shifted nervously in his seat, still seated at the kitchen table as he watched Roman head back over to the couch. "It's not nothing." Patton said, trying to stand up from his spot at the table, Virgil going over to try and help him up as best he could. "Roman, just tell us, if you don't we're all just gonna assume it's worse than it is and keep freaking out on you, so you might as well tell us." Virgil said.

ROMAN

Roman looks around at everyone. "It's just a scratch, you don't need to look at it." he says, nervously fiddling with his sleeve so that he didn't touch his hair accidentally. Janus scrutinized him. "No- you're going to let Logan take a look." he says firmly. Remus nods in agreement with Janus. "Roman, you can't just let it sit untreated, even if it is just a scratch." he says. Roman's eyes widen. "No- no no, you aren't looking at it." he says quickly- that meant they'd see all the different battlescars he had acquired, and he didn't want that-*- didn't want them to see the wound that he had sustained.

PATTON 

Virgil sighed when he saw that Roman wasn't going to let them look at it. "What if you and I go in my room and I look at it? I'll take the first aid kit, then everyone doesn't have to see it." Virgil offered. He didn't have as many battle scars as Roman did himself, but he knew a lot of guys he trained with did, and he knew that they either were weirdly proud of showing them off or desperate to hide them away from everyone and there was rarely any in-between. Maybe if there weren't five people all starring at Roman, he'd be more likely to let them take care of it, or at least let Virgil take care of it. "I'll go with you if you need someone to hold your hand so you're less nervous." Patton offered. "But he doesn't have to if you don't want Patton to see... Remus could come if you need someone." Virgil whispered to Roman, not sure if part of this was him trying to hide it from Patton specifically.

ROMAN

Roman looks at Virgil then nods. He knew they weren't going to let it go, so that was going to be his best bet. "Fine." he mumbled. Virgil already knew about the wounds anyway- he had actually been there when Roman had gotten. Roman just desperately wants to sit down, his head is spinning like crazy. "I- Can it be just you?" Roman asks, closing his eyes for a second as he stood. His head still hurt as well.

PATTON

Virgil nodded. "Of course." he said when Roman asked if it could just be him, whatever it took to get Roman to deal with this. He led him into the other room, grabbing the first aid kit on his way. Once they were in his bedroom he shut the door behind them. "Sit on the bed." he said, setting his crutches down before sitting down himself so he could get a close look at whatever scratch Roman was hiding. He had a feeling it was worse than Roman was letting on. Logan took the opportunity to return his attention to the pull out couch, putting the sheets on. Patton bit his thumb nervously, shifting in his seat again. It didn't feel right to just be sitting here doing nothing.

ROMAN

Janus helped Logan with the couch, pulling the sheets on over the bed. Roman sits down, reluctantly pulling his shirt off. The wound had gotten... so much worse. The skin around it was peeling, and green-tinged and even looking at it was gross. Roman looks away, and it's clear that even just moving that much caused him a lot of pain. He looks away, wrapping his other arm around himself tightly, covering himself. Even though Roman was quite fit, and muscular, he was always... very insecure of himself, and the scars covering his torso.

PATTON

Virgil couldn't help but gasp when he actually saw Roman's arm, covering his mouth quickly to try to silence it. "Roman, why the hell didn't you say anything?" he asked. How could Roman have let it get this bad? He knew better than this. Patton tried to use the table and back of the chair to stand himself up, struggling for quite a while before he finally managed. When Logan saw Patton up and walking towards the bedroom, he stopped what he was doing. "Where are you going?" Logan questioned. "To Roman, he might be hurt... and if it was me he wouldn't let me be in there alone so I have to go in there." Patton said, grabbing the door knob to Virgil's room. "Patton, wait, Roman said he just wanted Virgil." Logan said quickly, rushing over to him to try to stop him, his words seeming to cause Patton to pause, but the door was already swinging open. "I... I don't think I can do anything about this, I think you need a doctor, I'm not equipped to..." Virgil started, his voice trailing off when he heard the door swinging open. 

"Guys, we're not done, shut the door." Virgil said, Patton moving to cover his eyes when the realization finally struck him that Roman was probably shirtless and this was probably not how he wanted Patton to see him shirtless for the first time, wanting to respect his privacy and about to apologize but before he could do any of that, he caught sight of Roman's arm, letting out a small gasp. "Roman, your arm." Patton said softly, his eyes a bit wide at how bad his arm looked. Logan's eyes went a bit wide as well, Virgil letting out a small sigh. "Patton take Logan in the other room." Virgil said, he knew Logan had been the one to be dealing with everyone's injuries but this looked a lot worse than anyone had been expecting or any other injuries they'd dealt with and he didn't think Logan should be here for this. "Patton." Virgil said again when Patton didn't move, hoping he'd take Logan into the other room and shut the door.

ROMAN

Roman looked at Virgil, then away. "I- I'm not what's important right now." Roman says simply. "It doesn't matter if I'm hurt because we're focusing on Patton. He just went through a lot, and I don't want him to be worried about me..." he says. Janus looked at the two of them, Logan and Patton. "What are you guys doing?" he demands. "Don't go in there- you heard him." Janus says. Remus nods. "He didn't even want me in there you guys- we should give him space." Remus says, following the other two. Roman freezes when eh sees Patton- and then everyone else in the doorway. Shit. His breathing quickens- he doesn't want anyone to see him like this- let alone Patton or his friends. Patton would hate him now- wouldn't want to be around him after he's seen how disgusting Roman is, covered in marks and scars and wounds. Janus lets out a quiet gasp, but he moves to pull Logan away. "Logan, come on- let's go." he says, seeing how Roman is clearly uncomfortable with everyone there. Remus frowns. He definitely thought wounds were cool- but not when his brother is the one hurt.

PATTON

"Roman, of course you're important... this isn't some competition Patton is winning, I got hurt, he got hurt, you got hurt and we all have to deal with it whether we want to or not. If this gets worse, if something happens to you because you didn't deal with this when you should've... then we're all going to /have/ to be focusing on Patton because he's going to be devastated, he's gonna blame himself because he'll be the reason you got worse, even if you don't care what happens to you, I know you don't want that..." Virgil said. "We all care about you, we don't want to sit and watch you in pain." Virgil added softly. Virgil moved slightly so he was blocking Roman when everyone was suddenly in the doorway, trying not to be too obvious about it. Logan only broke his gaze when he felt Janus pulling on him, looking up at him instead. 

"Is Roman okay?" he asked quietly as he let Janus pull him away from the door. "Patton, go with Janus and Logan." Virgil said, hoping Patton would go, but he didn't seem to be moving. He felt terrible, he hadn't meant to cause everyone to burst in on Roman and make him upset or uncomfortable. Virgil bit his lip when Patton didn't seem to be moving, not sure what to do... he thought about asking Remus to take him into the other room, but part of him wanted Remus to stay because Virgil honestly had no idea what to do for Roman's arm... he didn't think he was able to deal with an injury that bad, and he didn't want to do something to make it even worse, and he couldn't ask Logan for help because this seemed like too much to put on a fourteen year old kid.

ROMAN

Roman was grateful that Virgil moved to kind of block him from view, and he held his hurt arm away from himself, and curled his knees close to himself, wrapping his arms around them, hoping to hide the worst of the scars. He looked away from Patton, not being able to meet his eyes. He's panicking, closing his eyes because maybe if he doesn't look then he won't have to see the disgust that's clearly going to be on Patton's face. Remus steps into the room, closing the door. "Virgil- you need to clean the wound, make sure that there's no pieces of anything inside of it. We can't give it stitches- it's infected- which is really cool by the way- sorry, not the time- but we just need to clean it, and try and kill the infection." he says. Janus looks at Logan. He didn't want to lie to the kid. "No. But he will be." he tells him, headed into the other room. "Wanna see some more card tricks?" he asks, hoping to distract him.

PATTON

Patton debated whether to step inside the room or to take steps further away from the doorway. He didn't want Roman to be alone, that was the whole reason he'd tried to come in here in the first place, but it was his fault everyone ended up in here when Roman didn't want that, and he didn't know if Roman was mad at him. Plus Patton had never seen anything as bad as Roman's arm before, and he was scared and worried about Roman's well being. When Remus moved to shut the door, he moved away so that he was outside of the room, heading into the bathroom and shutting the door behind him. He needed a minute. Virgil was relieved when Patton was out of sight, and that Remus had stayed in the room to talk him through what he needed to do. "Okay." he said with a small nod as he returned his attention to the first aid kit and Roman's injury. 

He wasn't sure if it was better to keep it covered or not once he was done... he was pretty sure he had a sleeveless shirt around here somewhere Roman could borrow if Remus ended up saying it was better not to cover it up. He could feel his anxiety returning, the fear of doing something wrong and being the reason Roman's arm somehow got worse bubbling up inside him but he tried to ignore it and just focus on what Remus was telling him. Logan looked back in the direction of Virgil's room, picking up his rubik's cube and messing with it, but it was different than usual... it was nervous and worried energy trying to focus itself on something he could be doing since he knew they weren't going to let him go back in there and help. He looked back at Janus at the question, giving a small nod. He wasn't sure if he'd be as easy to distract as usual, but he was grateful for the distraction none-the-less.

ROMAN

Remus moves over to where Virgil was, sitting near him and placing a reassuring hand on his boyfriends arm. "You'll do great- don't worry, alright?" he tells him softly, looking at the wound again. "Roman- what even happened?" he asks him softly. "I got stabbed..." Roman responds simply, no opening his eyes. Janus saw how nervous Logan was, and he just tried to keep up his own carefully crafted calm faced. He pulled out the card, flipping through them. Maybe... if he could just do one thing, really impress Logan, then he'd sufficiently distract him. He idly played with the cards in his hand for a moment, before trying all of the most impressive things that he knew, do distract Logan.

PATTON

Virgil felt a little relieved when Remus came over and sat down next to him, doing what Remus had told him and hoping he wasn't hurting Roman too much. He flinched when Roman stated that he'd gotten stabbed, it must've happened when Virgil was in the basement with Patton... or even when he was hiding in the stairway before he jumped out and tackled the guy... honestly, he wasn't sure. Either way, he shouldn't have sent Roman in there to fight that guy while he was downstairs trying to get Patton out. Logan tried to let his attention fall back on Janus and the cards, hoping that his worry about his cousin would leave his mind, spinning the rubik's cube in his hand as he watched the various impressive tricks Janus was showing him.

ROMAN

Roman closed his eyes and clenched his mouth shut, not wanting to make this any harder than it had to be for Virgil. Remus looks at Roman worriedly, then at Virgil. "Good job VeeVee." he says to his boyfriend encouragingly. Roman eventually realizes that Patton is no longer in the room, and he's worried about him now. "Where's Patton? Is he okay?" Roman asks, his voice strained. Janus looks at Logan, thinking that maybe Logan wants to explain something to him, get back in his comfort zone. "Hey- how about you teach me how to solve that Rubik's Cube?" he asks.

PATTON

Virgil did everything he was told, glancing back at Remus. "Okay, are we suppose to keep it covered or is it better if we don't?" he asked as he tried to find some more bandages in the first aid kit just incase Remus said they were suppose to cover it. "Patton's okay, he just went to the bathroom, he's okay." Virgil said, not entirely sure if Patton was emotionally okay because he knew he certainly wouldn't be in Patton's situation, but he didn't want to freak Roman out. Patton chewed his lip nervously, deciding to turn on the shower. He didn't plan on taking one at the moment, but maybe if everyone heard the running water they'd assume he was and they wouldn't come in worried about him so they'd stay focused on Roman, since Patton definitely felt he was the one the attention should've been on. Logan nodded a bit, handing Janus the rubik's cube. "Once you've decided on which side is going to be the top, trying to make a pattern where these four spots are the white, and this one in the middle is yellow... sort of like a daisy." Logan instructed, now that the rubik's cube was out of his hands, he was shaking them a bit when he wasn't trying to point something specific out to Janus, though he didn't seem to notice.

ROMAN

"Yes, cover it." Remus says to him, finding the bandages for him, and then handing them to Virgil. "Here." he says. Why had Roman felt the need to hide this from everyone? Why hadn't he told them- why hadn't he told /Remus/? Or Patton? God- his brother could be so stupid sometimes. Roman was ready to pass out again, his eyes slipping shut without his permission. "Can you- can you find him?" he asks. He wants to apologize- for being stupid, for being disgusting, for not being good enough- and even though he doesn't deserve to... he wants to hold Patton- because Patton made everything better. Janus nods, but he looks over at Logan's shaky hands. "Lo- your hands are shaky." he points out quietly. "Are you okay?" he asks.

PATTON

Virgil took the bandages from Remus, blinking... was that the sound of his shower? Ignoring it, he returned his attention to bandaging Roman's arm before standing up when he finished. "Yeah, let me just grab you a clean shirt to borrow real quick." Virgil said, going over to his closet. He wasn't sure if Roman was going to stay awake long enough for him to grab the shirt and find Patton, but if he fell asleep before Virgil could do all that, it was okay, Patton would still be here when Roman woke up, and Virgil certainly didn't mind letting Roman sleep in his bed. He probably needed rest. Grabbing a shirt he thought would fit Roman, he made his way back to the bed, noticing Roman's eyes were closed. 

"Ro?" he asked softly, not sure if Roman was still awake or not. Logan looked down at his hands when Janus pointed out that he was shaking them, quickly sliding them into his pockets. "No they're not. I'm fine, I'm teaching you how to solve a rubiks cube." Logan said much too fast, his voice going more monotone. His dad didn't like when he would shake his hands or bounce, or anything like that... but he didn't like him showing emotions either... and while Logan had spent his whole life working on that, he still hadn't quite mastered how to come off as still, and professional, and focused all the time... especially when he was worried or upset.

ROMAN

Roman nods, looking over at Virgil, snapping awake when he heard his name. "M'awake..." he says sleepily tiredly taking the shirt and slipping it on. It's a little bit too small on him, but it's fine for now. He stands up, trying to make it back to the couch, and then leaning against the wall for balance. Remus moves over to where Roman is, looping an arm around him and helping the tired prince back to the couch, helping him lay down. Janus looks at Logan. "Lo- it's okay to be nervous, or scared, you know that, right? We're all worried about Roman, you don't have to pretend like you aren't." he tells him gently.

PATTON

Virgil was about to protest when he saw Roman trying to get up, tell him it was okay to stay on the bed, that he could take a nap there if he needed to, but he knew Roman could be stubborn, so he just let Remus help him back to the couch instead, heading to the bathroom door and listening for a second. Yeah, that was the shower he'd heard. "Pat? You in the shower?" he asked, maybe Patton hadn't gotten in yet and could come out to talk to Roman. Logan shifted uncomfortably, not sure what to say or do. He wasn't use to being told it was okay to have feelings, his father never did that. Normally if someone pushed him to admit to something he was feeling, he'd snap at them and say he didn't have feelings, but saying that given the current situation seemed heartless... and so that couldn't possibly be the correct response here, his father wanted him to be a lot of things, but heartless wasn't one of them, right?

ROMAN

Remus worriedly sat near Roman on the couch, watching Roman lay down. Roman struggled to stay awake, desperately needing to talk to Patton, wanting to be near him, wanting to apologize. Roman yawns, waiting. He'd get it if Patton didn't come out, didn't want to talk to him. Janus extends a hand, gently taking Logan's shaking hands in his own. "Logan- it's alright. You can tell me how you're feeling. If you're upset- that's fine, scared? That's okay too. Whatever you're feeling is valid, and normal." he says.

PATTON

Virgil grabbed the handle, noticing the door was unlocked. But he couldn't just go in there right? What if Patton was actually already in the shower? Him seeing his best friend's husband naked... especially when you piled that on top of the fact that Roman hadn't even seen Patton naked yet, yeah that was just the icing on the things that he did not want to happen today. "Patton, can you hear me over the water?" he tried a bit louder, waiting a second before he heard the water turn off. "Did you fix it yet?" he heard Patton call back, Virgil suddenly realizing what Patton was doing. He blinked once before looking back at Remus. "Oh my God, the guys an anxious little genius..." he said to Remus before looking at the door. Faking a shower to keep people out, he was definitely going to have to remember that trick for himself. "Yeah, I helped his arm, he's just sitting on the couch now, can you come out? He wants to talk to you before he falls asleep." Virgil said. "Yeah, one second." Patton said, trying not to slip on any of the water that had gotten on the floor. Logan shook his head a bit, looking down at the floor, uncomfortable. No one had ever tried to talk to him about his feelings like this before, he wasn't even sure how to have this conversation.

ROMAN

Remus blinks, looking at Virgil. So Patton had been faking a shower? He guess he got it, but he hoped that Patton came out soon. Remus knew that Roman really needed sleep, but his brother seemed determined to not sleep until he had talked to Patton. Janus looks at Logan. "If you don't want to talk about it, that's okay- but just know that if you ever need to talk to anyone, I'm here for you, okay?" he asks him. He didn't think that Logan had many people that he could go to....so he wanted to be there for him.

PATTON

Virgil followed Patton to the couch, holding out his hand to Remus. "Gonna go finish my food... in my room... with Remus..." Virgil said a bit awkwardly, but he wanted to give Patton and Roman a moment to themselves and it was the best he could come up with for an excuse to leave. He then headed to the kitchen to grab his plate, trying to balance it and use his crutches at the same time. "I've never been more impressed with Patton than I am right now, seriously... that's such an epic anxiety move right there..." Virgil mumbled to Remus. Patton stood there not wanting to sit until he was sure Roman actually wanted him there since it was so hard to get up and down, not sure if Roman really wanted him there or if Virgil had just said that to get him out of the bathroom. He felt like Roman was mad at him, it was his fault everyone ended up in the bedroom. "Hi." he said nervously, fiddling with his hands. "Are you mad at me?" he asked after a moment, nervous. Logan gave a small nod. Honestly? He wasn't sure if he wanted to talk about it or not, how was he suppose to know? He'd never talked about it before.

ROMAN

Remus nods. "Yeah- I guess it is. It's a pretty smart way to hide from your problems." He would give the two space as well. He takes Virgil's sandwich from him, helping him carry it to the other room, setting it down on the bedside table, and then sitting on the bed, pulling Virgil down with him, and then giving the sandwich back to him, wrapping his arms around Virgil's waist gently. Roman looks up at Patton sleepily. "Hullo." he says, yawning a bit. "No- of course not... why'd I be mad at you for?" he asks. He stays quiet for a moment, before blurting his apology. "I'm sorry Pat." he says quietly. Janus gives Logan a small smile. "Now- come on, I'll learn the Rubik's cube- and then after I get the hang of it, we can have contests to see who's faster." he says with a smile, even though he knew Logan would win.

PATTON

"He's so much smarter than we give him credit for, I swear. Roman hid his arm from us so we'd focus on Patton, Patton pretended to shower so we'd focus on Roman... those two are a perfect match." Virgil said with a sad laugh, relieved when Remus helped him carry the plate. He sat himself down on the bed, setting the crutches aside before feeling Remus' arms around him. Taking a bite of his food, he sighed before holding it out to Remus. "Want a bite? Sorry, it's not as good now, it got cold." he said with a mouth full of food. Patton gave a shy shrug. "You didn't want everybody in there but they all ended up in there because of me." he said softly, a small pout forming on his face as he tried not to cry at the thought of Roman being mad at him, looking down a moment before looking back up at Roman, confused. "Wait, why are you sorry?" he asked, not understanding. Logan gave a small nod, pursing his lips together. "Try to make the daisy shape on the top." he instructed, shaking his hands again.

ROMAN

Remus nods. "I guess they are." he agrees with a small smile. He shakes his head at Virgil's offer. "No thanks, VeeVee. You need to eat." he says softly, leaning his head against Virgil's shoulder softly. Roman looks at Patton, seeing him about to cry. Great going Roman, he thought to himself, you made him cry. "Because- because I hid that I was hurt? And because- because you had to see me like that? All gross...” he says, looking self-consciously down at his arms, seeing the patchwork of scratches and jagged cuts across them. Janus nods- and it takes him a bit, but he's able to do it. "There." he says, holding it up.

PATTON

Virgil gave a small shrug before taking another bite. He supposed it was understandable that he was so hungry, he basically skipped dinner the night before and then had physically exerted himself quite a bit since... still, with his upbringing, offering people he cared about food when he was a bit stressed just sort of came natural. "How often should we change that bandage on Roman's arm?" he asked after a moment, taking some of the fries on his plate and sticking them in his mouth. Patton shook his head a bit, misunderstanding what Roman meant. "Well, it's infected... it's not that gross, I care more about making sure it gets better." he said, assuming the cut was what Roman was referring to when he used the word gross. What else would he be referring to? "Okay, now try to turn the yellow center of the daisy white like the petals so it turns into a white x." Logan said as he shook his hands a bit more.

ROMAN

Remus shrugs. "We could just leave it- then it'd get all gross and infected- more than it already is!" he says with a smile. "But once a day is a good way to go." he says with a smile. "You did really well, VeeVee. I could see that you were anxious, but you pushed that away and helped him." he tells him softly. "No, not talking about the cut." Roman says. "I'm gross." he mumbles, not knowing how Patton didn't see that, not knowing while Patton still wanted to be near him after seeing him like that. Janus nods, then looks over at Logan. "Lo? Do you want the Rubik's cube back? Or do you want to fiddle with the cards?"

TO BE CONTINUED

[irraydiance]

1. No specific fandom, do whatever you feel like 2. I just really like salt, you don't have to do all of them if you don't want to

It’s cool anon, I’m just pulling your leg. All in good fun!

I’ll stick to Assassination Classroom because it’d probably be too much salt if it was a fandom free-for-all.

1. What OTPs in your fandom(s) do you just not get?*

I see why people ship Karma with Asano – it’s the same reason people ship rival pairs, which is something I don’t get – but to me, they’re always going to be the rivals who find one another insufferable and don’t get along. It’s a personality clash as I think they’re fundamentally different people.

2. Are there any popular fandom OTPs you only BroTP?*

Karma/Nagisa and even then, their friendship is just kind of…”meh” to me now. In the past, I would’ve called it a BroTP of mine but I’m just indifferent now. Yeah, they’re close and there was that schism/survival game arc and all – I recognize that, but I’m just tired of seeing it everywhere even when it’s actually presented as strictly friendship.

I’d rather read about the Nagisa/Sugino BroTP to be honest. Or better yet, the Karma/Sugino BroTP. Hell, give me some Sugino/Kayano friendship.

3. Have you ever unfollowed someone over a fandom opinion?

No, but that might also be because I generally only follow fandom-specific blogs. I also only follow one AC blog, so…

4. Do you have a NoTP in your fandom? Are they a popular OTP?*

Yes, I have a NoTP – it’s Karma/Nagisa, and yes, it’s the goddamn most popular pairing in the fandom no matter which side of the world you’re on. Just my fucking luck, right?

5. Has fandom ever ruined a pairing for you?*

A pairing that I actually liked? No. A pairing I was indifferent to at first? Yes.

6. Has fandom ever made you enjoy a pairing you previously hated?*

Hahaha. No.

If I hated it to begin with, then I probably had a solid reason as to why, and my opinion wouldn’t change so easily.

7. Is there anything you used to like but can’t stand now?*

Not a one.

8. Have you received anon hate? What about?*

Never. That might change after this. But I did get an annoyed anon one time when I said Karma and Nakamura aren’t actually close. They were actually pretty civil though so no offense taken. I never heard back from anon but I hope they read my response!

9. Most disliked character(s)? Why?

Takaoka, probably… Yanagisawa was a scumbag but as a villain, Takaoka was more annoying as far as motives go. Like a goddamn cockroach, he just won’t go away (see: Karasuma’s 2-page manga in Grad Album Time). He also felt like a cartoon villain…but I can’t complain too much as the target demographic for AssClass definitely skewed younger.

There aren’t really any characters in the series whose guts I absolutely hated though.

10. Most disliked arc? Why?

Oh hell. The space arc right after the schism/survival game arc. Yeah, it’s AssClass we’re talking about, but I can only suspend my disbelief so much. Also, the lull in-between that arc and the final arc where nothing really happened was kind of a chore to read. It was the calm before the storm, but not much happened.

11. Is there an unpopular character you like that the fandom doesn’t? Why?

The fandom doesn’t hate him as far as I know, but Sugino doesn’t get nearly as much love as anyone that isn’t a member of Utatan, Nakamura, or Asano. Is it because he’s just a regular nice guy and people think that’s boring? Because he’s super ordinary and apparently heterosexual? I guess that’s Tumblr’s least favourite combination.

I’m kidding. Don’t kill me.

12. Is there an unpopular arc that you like that the fandom doesn’t? Why?

I don’t know if it’s unpopular but I enjoyed the baseball arc with Sugino. He’s just very likable to me. The themes of friendship and teamwork were recycled constantly, like in the sports festival (Isogai’s) arc and the culmination of Karma’s character development in the second semester finals, but it really began with Sugino’s baseball arc, and to me, that one really exemplified the themes best out of them all. They felt like a real rag-tag group of guys working toward a goal together.

13. Unpopular opinion about XXX character?

Karma is not a flirt and he’s not a slave to his hormones.

Stop writing him this way.

14. Unpopular opinion about your fandom?

Outside of the Ace Attorney fandom, I’ve never been in a fandom that hates on het pairings so much. I’ve seen all the common ones insulted and just trashed in general for the most inane reasons, and the Nagisa/Kayano ship has it the absolute worst, but I digress. The only het pairing people don’t seem to shit on is Chiba/Hayami – probably because they mostly only ever interact with one another. Go figure.

Also, this is a thing in every fandom, but seriously, you’ll have two characters interact, and even if it’s a completely regular conversation, people suddenly just start shipping it. It’s like people will ship any character with another character as long as they have even some kind of small connection. “These characters hate each other? Yeah, let’s ship ‘em.” “This character complimented this other character in an offhanded way but they have no other interactions? Yeah, I ship it.”

I’m not saying “stop having fun, guys,” but it’s a mentality I don’t follow.

15. Unpopular opinion about the manga/show?

Some of the villains felt a little too cartoon-y/flat for my tastes, like Takaoka, but as I said earlier, I think AssClass skewed younger despite such a focus on assassination and the entire nature of “killing” – most of the time, not literally, of course. They had basically zero redeeming qualities as opposed to antagonists like the Asanos, who were ultimately sympathetic, or even Korosensei’s apprentice.

16. If you could change anything in the manga/show, what would you change?

I’m terrible with these questions. My biggest complaint is that in a series with loads and loads of characters, most of them didn’t even get fleshed out so I really would’ve preferred there to be more alternate points of view – make it really feel like an ensemble cast because outside of maybe 2-3 characters, the rest of them only ever got one-and-done chapters. There are so many characters that I wish got more time in the spotlight, but alas.No offense to Nagisa and his fans – I like Nagisa, but especially in the second half of the story, it just felt like the scope narrowed way too much on him and/or Karma when Class E is actually supposed to be treated as a single entity where everyone feels equally important. Kind of like in the problem Karma solved for the final exam.

17. Instead of XYZ happening, I would have made ABC happen…

I wouldn’t have had Kayano die only to be brought back to life right after. I get that it was a parallel with Korosensei not being able to save Aguri, and now being able to save her sister Kayano. Still, the whole she’s dead lol psyche! angle went beyond cheating death; Kayano straight up died and got revived.

At the same time, in the entire series where they had a death fakeout like what we got with Lovro, if Kayano ended up being the only one killed off for real, I would’ve been upset.

So I would’ve not had that happen at all. I would’ve settled for Kayano getting hurt, or being about to get hurt when she tried to help only to have Korosensei cover for her, but not have her literally dying.

18. Does not shipping something ‘popular’ mean you’re in denial and/or biased?

Whether you ‘like’ or ‘dislike’ a pairing is down to preference.

There are plenty of pairings in other series that have strong evidence behind them and even then, there will be a handful of people from the more popular ship that twist facts to suit their narratives because they don’t like opposing pairings. They’ll even bend fiction into fact to deny actual facts. That’s being biased, but I can’t even say these people are “in denial” because a lot of those people honestly do believe they’re 100% right. Even if you throw a fact in their face, they have some kind of warped excuse ready.

19. What is the one thing you hate most about your fandom?

Obnoxious, toxic shippers.

20. What is the purest ship in the fandom?

You’d think that on a salty ask list, the question would be what the most vile ship is, not the purest one.

Come on, guys. Karma/Okuda is obviously the purest. Sarcasm aside, I really do think Karma/Okuda is the purest. It’s very sweet and genuine. The very guarded Karma can completely drop his walls and open his heart to Okuda and in turn, she watches out for Karma and really wants what’s best for him.

Putting aside the deadly pranks they can unleash on others, Karma and Okuda’s relationship is definitely pure.

21. What are your thoughts on crack ships?

I don’t mind crack ships at all but I would prefer that there’s something logical that connects the characters involved, even if it’s a crack ship.

22. Popular character you hate?

I don’t hate any of the popular characters, but I find that I’m much more mild about Nakamura than a lot of people in this fandom. I like her, but clearly not as much as everyone else.

23. Unpopular character you love?

Sugino is one of my favourites. No love from the fandom, sadly.

He’s referred to as Nagisa’s “best friend” by official material but it seems the fandom completely buries this. He’s always written off as a goddamn third wheel to Karma and Nagisa no matter if it’s shippy or just platonic and that’s such a pet peeve of mine. Official material indicates that Nagisa/Sugino/Karma get along well as a trio, but noooo, fandom seems to have this perception that Karma and Sugino only see one other as a friend-of-a-friend (Nagisa).

I feel that they might not have been friends if not for Nagisa, but after they got to know each other, Karma and Sugino would still be good friends even if Nagisa’s not around.

24. Would you recommend XXX to a friend? Why or why not?

I’ll say yes. For a weekly Jump series, AssClass is a lot more off the wall compared to the usual stuff, but it has your standard life lessons/morals for not just kids, but anyone. Plus it’s short and sweet at ~180 chapters.

25. How would you end XXX/Would you change the ending of XXX?

I wouldn’t change the ending. Korosensei had to die or else it would cheapen the meaning of the story.

26. Most shippable character?

The fandom would say it’s Karma, but I will say it’s someone with a welcoming and adaptable personality like Sugino. Isogai works too.

27. Least shippable character?

Outside of actual villains, probably Asano. This isn’t meant as an insult, but it’s hard to find a match for him because of his personality.

I didn’t have great answers, but I tried, lol.

[winchesterandpie]

Son of a Patriotic Biscuit (Part 2)

Pairing: Steve Rogers x Reader

Word Count: 1743

Warnings: None

A/N: I forgot to mention in part 1 that this occurs before the events of The Winter Soldier (So Steve still thinks Bucky died falling off the train). Steve’s not very present in this part, but that all gets going in the next one so you don’t have long to wait for it! Thank you guys for the reception of the last part! As always, feedback is appreciated and the tag list is OPEN. Gif is not mine

Part 1 is HERE

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The next morning, I made quite the actress, if I do say so myself. I played the part of still being incredibly ticked off at being left behind though already missing them at the same time. Honestly, it wasn’t all that hard - I was still angry that Steve hadn’t let me go. The difficult part was pretending that I hadn’t stayed up all night planning my own mission, but I managed. Concealer is definitely a girl’s best friend.

Once they were out the door, promising to keep in touch, I made my way back to the training room, fully intending to ensure that I would be at the top of my game when I showed up and saved their rears. To that effect, I picked up my longbow and moved to the targets.

“J.A.R.V.I.S.? Start my playlist, would you?”

“Of course.”

Almost immediately, I heard the opening strains of one of my favorite songs, grinning as I took my mark.

A week and a half later found me in California, staying in one of my old hideouts in a motel. The rest of the team was in town, and I was being careful to stay out of their way. I’d already been there for a few days, mostly keeping tabs on everyone, but doing a bit of my own digging into my old captors. Apparently they’d been doing more experimenting, though that wasn’t what had brought them onto the Avenger Radar. The real reason was that they had teamed up with HYDRA, which was a tiny bit of a no-go as far as SHIELD was concerned.

For a moment, I remembered the small stab of betrayal when I had seen that only now was the team being sent after these people. You’re the one who didn’t talk about your past, I reminded myself as my jaw clenched, They would’ve demolished the place if you’d told them. But noooo, you like to suffer in silence and keep your past to yourself. You’ve no right to complain if you stayed so close-mouthed about it. The crackle of the comms system coming in over my laptop dragged me out of the black spiral I was getting into.

“He’s on the move, do I follow?” Nat’s voice was the first one I heard, followed quickly by none other than Captain Spangles himself telling her to go ahead. Ever one to be prepared, I changed quickly into my suit. I wasn’t expecting anything to happen for a few days yet, but my philosophy was to expect the worst in situations like this - that way, you’re either right or pleasantly surprised. While I was strapping the quiver to my back, various knives and firearms tucked into hidden pockets or sheaths and boots, the assassin was back on the comms.

“The target is leaving town in a Jeep, headed east, but I’ve lost eyes on him.”

“I’ve got eyes on him. Let’s see where he’s going.” Stark’s voice crackled over the earpiece I was putting in. I’d made it myself and patched it into their frequency, but it was a receiver only. If I got into trouble, I’d be on my own trying to get out of it. For the next few minutes, there was tense silence over the comms, broken only by occasional updates on the path the scientist was taking. In that time, I ran the tracer I’d implanted and figured out where they were.

The path they were taking seemed vaguely familiar, but I couldn’t quite put my finger on why. The thought put me on edge so much that I had to force my muscles to unclench. Something about that direction was raising the hairs on the back of my neck, and I hated not knowing the reason.

“He’s pulling up to some warehouse. It looks like the one he was telling HYDRA to meet him at.”

“Already? I thought they weren’t due for this for another couple of days…” I could hear the genuine surprise in Steve’s voice despite the crackling reception. “Alright, we’re on our way out there. Don’t engage until we get there.”

“Don’t you dare go getting yourself killed you fricken fracken, mother truckin’, son of a biscuit eating little pretty boy with an American flag obsession,” I muttered in exasperation or desperation, I wasn’t sure which, while moving around the motel room as I gathered my stuff. Taking a last look around, I froze in my tracks, feeling like the floor dropped out from under me as I realized just what warehouse they were talking about.

I’d heard the scientists talk about it while I’d been there, but had never really concerned myself with it. Now that I thought about it, I figured out why the hairs were raising - the warehouse was their standard trap as well as their prison. And the team - my friends, no, family - were walking right into it. I mean, they used the warehouse to store all of the experiments’ files, but those were almost impossible to find if you didn’t already know exactly what you were looking for and where it was. The things I’d heard about the people caught turned my stomach unpleasantly. The idea of the scientists doing what they had done to me to anyone else was unthinkable. I had to stop it, no matter what happened to me. With that decision, I opened the motel window, leaping out and unfurling my wings.

It was dark enough outside that I made it safely to a high enough altitude to remain unseen but low enough to stay off the radar. With nearly soundless flaps of my wings, I flew as quickly as I could to where the team was headed, hoping against all hope that I would get there before them. The winds were against me, and I heard over my earpiece the team forming a plan and moving out while I was still a minute’s flight away. Cursing my luck, I pushed myself as hard as I dared, knowing I would need some strength and substantial grit to get them out of this.

Silently, I landed in the woods near the warehouse that I had been housed in a long time ago. Once on the ground, I released a breath I didn’t realize I’d been holding. Clint was still in the stand of trees, near the edge where the forest gave way to the open ground surrounding the warehouse.

“Clint! I’m so glad I caught you.” I jogged toward him, whisper shouting in an attempt to keep a low profile.

“Y/N? What are you doing here?” His eyebrows furrowed when he saw me coming.

“Doesn’t matter at the moment. You guys are walking right into a trap.”

“How do you know?”

“This is… where I was created.” I didn’t have time to be embarrassed about my origins, but that didn’t stop my throat from getting caught on the words. “I’ve heard them talk about what else they did before I escaped. What are you guys here for?”

“There’s a file Fury wants us to get ahold of, specifically pertaining to their experiments backed by HYDRA. After that, he wants the place burnt to the ground.” To his credit, the bowman didn’t even address the fact that my deep, dark secret was now revealed. I really didn’t want pity, especially not now. “Alright, what are we going to do about the trap? Comms went dead a few seconds before you got here.”

“They perpetually have signal jammers running, so nothing gets out of that building unless they want it to,” I acknowledged. “Where did everyone go in there?”

“The plan was for Tin Man to run perimeter inside the building, I’m on duty for keeping our escape open.” His hand ran through his short hair a little anxiously. “The Stars and Stripes was going in with the Spider - they were supposed to stick together, but I have no idea if they still are. They only went in a minute ago, and I haven’t heard anything so it can’t have gone too wrong yet.” I grimaced, not wanting to undermine the hope, but knowing that my former captors were quite good at this. If they had HYDRA working with them I didn’t want to know what new tricks they had up their sleeves.

“Alright, you stay out here - if we lose our way out of here then we’ll all be better off dead. Plus, the more of us that go in, the less likely it is that I can get us all out. I’ll get everyone out that I can, though. I still remember the building’s layout so I’ve got the best bet of making it back.” I took control, knowing that my experience here gave me an edge in making a plan. Fortunately, Clint didn’t question it, just nodded.

“Be careful in there, alright? Capsicle would have my head if he found out I let you do this.” The man ruffled my hair playfully, but I could hear the real worry behind the joking tone.

“I’ll be fine. I’ve escaped these ninnys before, you know,” I reassured while mimicking his joking tone. With a final, tight smile, I was off, ghosting across the open ground to the access hatch I’d slipped through more than a decade ago. My bow was in hand, an arrow already nocked on the string. Slowly but surely I made my way to the secret entrance. For a long moment, I listened down the hatch, not wanting to be caught unawares before I could drop down the ladder.

Satisfied that the way was clear, I made my way downwards, but apparently someone had been hiding there because gunshots suddenly rang out. With no time, I let go of the ladder, spreading my wings just as much as I needed to hit the ground at a force that wouldn’t break my knees. Instantly, I rolled to the side for cover, wincing as my wing hit the ground.

Breathing deeply, I sent a knife whirling towards my attacker. The grunt and thud told me that I’d hit my target, so I retrieved the weapon before steeling myself to look at my wing. As I suspected, a bullet had torn through it, right in a spot that would prevent me from flying without immense pain. Grimacing, I tucked my wings close to my back before moving out into the hallway.

Well, this ought to be fun.

Part 3

Forever Tags: @riddikulus-obsessions​

Son of a Biscuit Tags: @barnes-toddpartnersinheartbreak

Series Masterlist

[itsjustwyatt-blog]

1. What is their MBTI type? He is most definitely ESFP (The Entertainer)

2. What is their moral alignment? Probably Neutral Good.

3. What is their zodiac sign? Wyatt is a Gemmy.

4. What TV tropes describe them? Momma’s Boy and probably Non-Action Guy fit him best. Is the Group Little Brother a trope?

5. Which Hogwarts house would they be in? Hufflepuff!

6. What is their worst nightmare? Being trapped in a room with spiders or birds.

7. What is their favorite movie? Pan’s Labrynth, Princess Mononoke, & Boondock Saints.

8. Do they have any treasured items? No, he doesn’t. Just treasured memories?

9. Where would they fall on a politeness/rudeness scale? Wyatt is mostly polite, but his lack of focus and proneness to zip around can make him appear rude. He likes to hold doors for people and will say ‘thank you’ and 'please’.

10. What is their favorite drink? Probably tropical green tea with a slice of lemon.

11. Do they have an recurring dreams? No.

12. What is their clothing style like? Like Hot Topic threw up in Zumiez.

13. Are they a morning person or night owl? Any time is a good time for Wyatt. It just depends on if he’s awake or not!

14. What is their guilty pleasure? Hmm… Kitchen Nightmares, probably.

15. What is their favorite kind of weather? Every kind of weather! Rain brings puddles and rainbows, sunshine brings warmth, snow brings fluffy snow, cold weather gives reasons to snuggle in scarves, spring decorates the world with flowers and life, fall offers the smell of burnt firewood and pumpkin- Wyatt can find a good reason for any season, to be honest.

16. Do they hate anyone? Why? I don’t think Wyatt knows how to hate.

17. Can they remember much from their childhood? If yes, what fond memories do they have? What bad memories? He remembers most details. There’s some lapses from triggering. Some of the good ones are the adventures he’d had with his friends, lighting bonfires in the woods and laughing and whooping and hollering into the night, junior prom when they all danced and ate food and went home as a group to binge on movies… some bad ones may include some instances in which case he was pushed around or picked on in school until he learned to deal with it.

18. Do they have any special diet requirements? Are they a vegetarian? Vegan? Any weird food preferences? He will eat anything. If it’s up to him to make it must be microwaveable. He’s not supposed to consume dairy because he’s severely lactose intolerant, but sometimes he doesn’t listen to that. He likes to eat pickles a lot, though. Pickles and ice cream, together, like a pregnant woman.

19. Do they like musicals? Music in general? What do they do when their favorite song comes on? Musicals, not so much, but music in general? He listens to anything catchy with energy, and he will belt his heart out to his favorite songs. Fortunately, he can hold a tune. He’s not an A+ performer, but he isn’t entirely tone deaf.

20. What’s their sexuality? What do they find attractive, physically and mentally? What do they like/need in a relationship? Wyatt hasn’t labeled himself. He knows he’s not straight, though. He’s a bit slower in the whole seeking out a partner thing, wanting to experience everything life has to offer without a 'ball and chain’ situation. Which he knows is unfair because he is aware he can adventure with someone. He is afraid to have already met his imprint worried that the end game nature of it has him tied.

21. For triggered wolves: how long does shifting typically take? Do they dread the pain of shifting, or look forward to the freedom of being in wolf form? Still 25-30 minutes. He hates the pain of it, feels like it doubles the actual time it takes, but when he’s shifted it feels worth it to run around wild. Like slowly pulling off a bandaid. A very big bandaid.

22. What are their thoughts about full moons? Do they have make any particular preparations, have any traditions? Wyatt never likes when he doesn’t have a free choice, but he figures it’s just part of the catch for who he is and what he gains from what’s in his blood.

23. What thoughts do the have on the existence imprints? Love them, hate them, indifferent? What are their feelings on their own imprint, or lack of? He’s somewhat indifferent, somewhat reluctant to want to agree to them. He admires Jordan for who he is and what he does, likes being in his presence, etc, but he’s also afraid that his internalized wishes to move on to a real pack one day may conflict with Jordan’s plans. Wyatt doesn’t like the idea of running into brick walls, and he just hopes, as it’s so unexpected, that his imprint doesn’t hold him back.

24. Do they have any alpha blood? Noooo.

25. How often do they voluntarily shift? Maybe once a month, if he’s determined to do it. He wants to gain immortality, though.

26. What is their favorite part of being in wolf form? The feeling of freedom and enhanced speed and agility.

27. Do they prefer wolf or human form? Human form. He can’t communicate amongst his friends in wolf form, he has no thumbs, and can’t wander around town. He likes being around humans a lot, too, and he can’t do that if he’s a wolf all the time.

28. Do they prefer running in human or wolf form? Human. He practices free running, so he likes to scale and grab onto obstacles. Can’t grip onto fire escapes and building ledges with paws.

29. If they could create their own pack, what theme would they use for names? Hmm… I think Wyatt would have it named after fictional monsters or some science fiction series, or the movie title pack. Something that will not at all be taken seriously and that he would choose so he can name himself something /awesome/ without regards to what other pack members have to name themselves.

30. Which enhanced sense was the hardest to grow used to? Hearing. He stayed up late at night because of the sounds he’d hear, flinch in the classrooms focusing on a fly buzzing nearby or a classmate snapping gum between their teeth… it was distracting to him.