#not out of action brain i guess

[emloafs]

me leaving my bubble and seeing everyone hate on demetri for taking the last sekai taikai spot

[galaxy-fleur]

A short lil' blurb on Chris helping you with your exercise. I need him to motivate me to do my daily crunches. He'd probably make a great trainer.

700 words.

"Five... Six... Seven... Oh, come on, you’re the one who asked me for help, don't back out of it now. You're doing great. I believe in you. Just focus on your breathing."

You could only huff in reluctant defeat as you pushed yourself to raise up over and over despite your muscles protesting against it, begging you to flop back down onto the mat and stay there. Preferably for a good hour or two. You were never good at crunches. Even push-ups were more preferable in your books.

Granted, it was technically your own fault for skipping on your regular workouts lately. Of course everything was so much harder now. You hated how human body worked sometimes. Chris did tell you that consistency is everything.

Him being so sympathetic and understanding didn't do anything to boost your wounded pride either. But there was no denying that he was a good mentor. He was so well regarded among the new recruits for a reason, after all. Though, you guessed he was going real easy on you. A perk of being his partner. Although it was only a small fraction of the strength you knew he possessed, his hands applied just enough pressure to keep your ankles glued to the mat with no chance of cheating for you. You could see the corners of his mouth twitching upwards ever so slightly as he watched you huff and puff with effort, probably trying to not show too much of his amusement to spare your ego.

Well, not everyone was able to do fifty crunches in less than five minutes.

You panted out with exertion as you raised yourself up again, putting even more added strain on your core muscles as you tried to not get too close to him. Not that it would be a problem. You were just embarrassed. Especially when you were all red in the face and sweating buckets here.

"Stop. I can see you smiling. You think this is funny," you grumbled, shooting him a glare that lacked any real ire behind it.

"Maybe a little," he admitted with a chuckle, the sound light and a bit husky in a way that was so natural. It made your heart flutter, and not just because of the exercise making your blood pump. Damn it, you really wouldn't mind him laughing at your expense if that meant seeing him smile like that. You felt him pat your leg a little in a show of encouragement. "I can feel you tensing every time you go up. You're just making things harder for yourself, you know."

You wanted to groan. Of course he would notice, you weren't being very subtle about it, anyways. You knew he was just trying to guide you along and help you out with doing your best, but those sparks of amusement dancing in his brown eyes just made you want to ditch the exercise altogether and kiss that look off his face.

...Or maybe you just wanted to kiss him. Probably the latter.

"Ugh, fine, fine. How many do I have left, anyways?" You puffed out as you fell back down onto the mat with a small 'oof' escaping you from the air being knocked out of your lungs for a moment. You stared up onto the ceiling, gathering what strength you had. Oh, you were going to kick ass with these damn crunches, and then you were going to enjoy your well-deserved prize. If your muscles wouldn't turn into a jelly.

"Twenty."

"Twenty!?"

This time, Chris didn't hold in his laugh, shaking his head at your peril. "I already lowered it for you, dummy. C'mon, just take your time. There's no rush."

"You're torturing me here, Redfield..." You whined, rubbing your eyes with the heels of your palms.

And just as you were about to reach that cursed twentieth crunch, you felt Chris lean forward, meeting you right in the middle as his lips brushed over yours in a quick, sweet kiss. This time, you didn't fall back down. You didn't need to. Instead, you let out a sigh of relief and leaned into his affection as if it was the best way to ease the scalding tension in your body. And, in a way, it really was. With a smile, you realized that you just caught him slipping up on you.

"Twenty," you announced as you pulled back, giving him an excited but smug grin of your own. "You forgot to count it."

He blinked, seemingly a bit too phased out from that small kiss you shared, before breathing out an impressed laugh.

"Good work, soldier."

[rorydrawsandwrites]

final opinions on the silly mr puzzles guy???? :3

He is Definitely a Guy Ever

Very tragic yet very dangerous. Delightfully theatrical and unhinged but if he were a real person I would NOT want him on the loose ever again his ass is dying in prison (if he even can)

Honestly I'm able to relate to the fact that he's such a critic hahah. I mean I agree with him professionals should have standards. So married to his own vision save for that one time that it's even messed things up for him on occasion. But he's definitely good at entertaining, seeing as he entertained me into liking him as a silly little guy despite all the war crimes. I'm sure that's what he would've wanted

Then again he still throws tantrums and stalks people and punches effigies and attempts mass murder and brainwashes people when things don't go his way and that's why he's a pathetic king. Like yass girl slay but also get yourself together

The shot with the "crane up" in the lowest point short as he lay in the trash can was satisfying for multiple reasons. Finally he's where he belongs /lh

I feel like I found this character at the right time because I've learned a little bit about filmmaking by now, camera movements and shot types and like the visual language of film, and it IS pretty fascinating stuff so I get his passion one hundred percent (also did you know that in the beginning of Creative Control the "who, what, when, where, why, and how" are the 5W + 1H that should be answered when delivering a piece of news. Like in press. Apparently it's also a general problem solving thing but I first learned about it in the context of news media. I felt so proud of myself for noticing)

I also like that he's eloquent and has only said fuck once, characters like that tend to be endearing to me. Also I get to use my purple prose vocabulary when thinking about their dialogue and possibly writing it down. I did already mention loving his VA, also loved his progressively growing collection of faces, and I think that twink of a man should be seductively grabbed by the waist at least once- wait who said that

On an slightly related note I can't see any potential for ships here with the main cast. I heard there was one with Mario? Uhh, welp. I don't see it. The only ship I'll ship is him and Firkász, she's already sucking on his staticky glass screen as we speak. Disgusting

I don't know what else to say tbh I think he rocked the fairy godmother fit. Silly ahh wings. He was such a pretty fairy

Anyway rest in containment Puzzles, genuine human connection could've fixed you. Also if you didn't treat people like toys 'till the very end. Your sadistic tendencies and stubborn disregard for your fellow beings made you all the more horrible and yet more tragic still, as you could've never even had what you most desperately needed. Because you couldn't change

[thebibliomancer]

[acircusfullofdemons]

Having a paracosm for 7ish years has spoiled me. Trying to not only start but keep a new paracosm going is just. insanely difficult. who are you people what is going on why am I here. all boring answers till everything gets some real development i hate it so much.

[xproskeith]

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[guinevereslancelot]

[skybristle]

you think that an iterator could develop cancer like. The Normal Way [by it just being an off the cuff mutation] . Like. I imagine Generally speaking that they have inspectors / other organisms to clear out potentially harmful organisms so generally doesn't happen but like if an iterator completely stagnates for a long period of time .... hmmm....

[arttsuka]

It's quite fascinating how people will view characters despite their actions based on how the narrative (and the creator) is painting them out to be.

[milfbrainrot]

have always been a bit more neutral to timebomb but it has rly surprisingly grown on me so much ;-; i think i do see it more from the tragedy angle and maybe more one-sided. i'm not sure jinx has ever been in a place to reciprocate the feelings i'm sure ekko has, but it is nice to think about for years down the line and in terms of what could have been.

[jumpscaregoose]

university is great you get so much fanfiction out of it

[blujayonthewing]

reading this book on urban exploration and also stumbling onto a youtuber who is doing (and explaining!) literal ancient alchemy is doing something to my brain chemistry (positive)

[pulchrasilva]

Having people you care about who are suicidal while you're not suicidal is truly a special torture I think I want to go back to wanting to kill myself im gonna throw up

[jvzebel-x]

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[keeps-ache]

at some point i'll start recording while i draw. mostly cuz i want to see what i did to get to this point but it'd be neat... if i did it hvhsd

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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